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In reply to the discussion: Stop it, stop saying Social Security needs reform, you are a Democrat, right? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)in the Trust Fund for the baby boomers.
The "surplus" in the Trust Fund is intended to provide for the baby boomers' retirement. It will not be needed when the baby boomers are mostly dead because after the demise of the baby boomers, the money-in, money-out Trust-Fund-primarily-to-separate-Social-Security-revenues-from-the-General-Fund operations will resume.
All this worry about depleting the surplus in the Trust Fund is foolish because the surplus in the Trust Fund was specifically set up to pay for the Baby Boomers' senior years.
This is a big hoax.
The real problem is jobs. Social Security is just a red herring. Republicans want to keep wages and therefore tax revenues low. That's their goal. That's what they campaign on. They don't want to have more jobs. This lousy job market is great for the GOP and the corporate masters.