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People are living longer tho. From what I read, SS can be fixed easier. Medicare is gonna be the problem

Biden been advocating for cuts, reforms in SS up to the late 2000s

Covid changed that apparently. US has posted a decrease in life expectancy the past 2 years.

So we live longer .. so we work longer.

The finish line of the rat race keeps getting pushed farther and farther from us.

Capitalism really is a matrix social construct.

Im fine, I took the blue pill a long time ago. Let me enjoy my steak, cable tv, weed, beer, go home team sports! .. and Ill wake up everyday like a robot and get behind that wheel of my car and get in that commuter slug line.

260 days a year. Every year until my battery dies and I go face down on a keyboard in a non-corner office.

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Hilarious

Republicans held a hearing to prove Twitter’s bias against them. It backfired in spectacular fashion (https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/08/media/republicans-hearing-twitter-bias-reliable-sources/index.html)

“I am aware of no unlawful collusion with, or direction from, any government agency or political campaign on how Twitter should have handled the Hunter Biden laptop situation,” James Baker, Twitter’s former deputy counsel, told the committee while under oath.

And Matt Taibbi, one of the journalists Musk handpicked last year to comb through Twitter’s internal messages for evidence of free speech violations, said himself that “there is no evidence — that I’ve seen — of any government involvement in the laptop story.”

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Pretty straight forward

I think we have to get out of the mind set of a worthy punishment. Obviously there should be consequences but to what end? Punishment for the sake of punishment just leads to recidivism. There is no current outcome we have in place where this kid comes out of it and has great odds of becoming a solid citizen. IMO we have to develop something that gives these kids an opportunity to learn how to function in a society.

There also needs to be school reform. This is a K-8 school? In what minds in Florida and Miami-Dade think it is appropriate for a 14 year old to be in the same school building as a 5 year old? From a developmental standpoint that is woefully inappropriate.



https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-spector-carjacking-mentoring-20171218-story.html

My kid is at a school where you have elementary and middle school in same building, hallways etc

Juvenile Court is about counseling and helping .. there is no guilty finding, there is no punishment. I worked on Juvie cases as a clerk and the courts/staff go way out of their way to help but some kids are just unhelpable

I care about SS. Been paying into it since I was 14 working at baskin robins.

I just assume there will be nothing for me in 20 or so years when Im eligible.

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Fair to say the unspoken (or maybe spoken) point of raising the age limit for SS .. is so people die off and dont get to collect on what they put in?

Sounds .. a little morbid.

Many of you are younger and hear some of the BS about SS. (not a shot I swear!)
this is pretty good.


https://www.aarp.org/retirement/social-security/info-2020/10-myths-explained.html

10 Social Security Myths That Refuse to Die

Many of you are younger and hear some of the BS about SS. (not a shot I swear!)
this is pretty good.


https://www.aarp.org/retirement/social-security/info-2020/10-myths-explained.html

10 Social Security Myths That Refuse to Die

Social Security does face funding challenges. For decades it collected more than it paid out, building a surplus that stood at $2.85 trillion at the end of 2021. But the system is starting to pay out more than it takes in, largely because the retiree population is growing faster than the working population, and living longer. Without changes in how Social Security is financed, the surplus is projected to run out in 2035, according to the latest annual report from the program's trustees.

Even then, Social Security won't be broke. It will still collect tax revenue and pay benefits. But it will only bring in enough to pay 80 percent of scheduled benefits, according to the latest estimate. To avoid that outcome, Congress would need to take steps to shore up Social Security's finances, as it did in 1983, the last time the program nearly depleted its reserves. The steps then included raising the full retirement age (see Myth #2), increasing the payroll tax rate and introducing an income tax on benefits (see Myth #8).

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G .. how da fuq does that make me feel better?

2.85 TRILLION SURPLUS as of 2021 will be wiped out in 14 years?

Only pay 80% of its scheduled benefits?

If that shit is supposed to hit he fan in 2035 .. there wont be shit left over for me in the year 2049 when I (hopefully) turn 70.

Dang it .. its WORSE than I feared.

Am I reading this article wrong?

Fuck the old people who enjoyed prosperous times and home affordability!!

raise the age limit!

Im republican on this .. fuck the old people, I want whats mine!

Social Security does face funding challenges. For decades it collected more than it paid out, building a surplus that stood at $2.85 trillion at the end of 2021. But the system is starting to pay out more than it takes in, largely because the retiree population is growing faster than the working population, and living longer. Without changes in how Social Security is financed, the surplus is projected to run out in 2035, according to the latest annual report from the program's trustees.

Even then, Social Security won't be broke. It will still collect tax revenue and pay benefits. But it will only bring in enough to pay 80 percent of scheduled benefits, according to the latest estimate. To avoid that outcome, Congress would need to take steps to shore up Social Security's finances, as it did in 1983, the last time the program nearly depleted its reserves. The steps then included raising the full retirement age (see Myth #2), increasing the payroll tax rate and introducing an income tax on benefits (see Myth #8).

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G .. how da fuq does that make me feel better?

2.85 TRILLION SURPLUS as of 2021 will be wiped out in 14 years?

Only pay 80% of its scheduled benefits?

If that shit is supposed to hit he fan in 2035 .. there wont be shit left over for me in the year 2049 when I (hopefully) turn 70.

Dang it .. its WORSE than I feared.

Am I reading this article wrong?

As A-Rod would say, Relax.

The Gov't would have to go full retard to let the shit hit the fan on SS.

Deadlines spur action. So don't count on any serious reform until they have to.

“I am aware of no unlawful collusion with, or direction from, any government agency or political campaign on how Twitter should have handled the Hunter Biden laptop situation,” James Baker, Twitter’s former deputy counsel, told the committee while under oath.

And Matt Taibbi, one of the journalists Musk handpicked last year to comb through Twitter’s internal messages for evidence of free speech violations, said himself that “there is no evidence — that I’ve seen — of any government involvement in the laptop story.”

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Pretty straight forward

The gaslighting in the article is what fake news is made of. Darcy is a joke.

Let’s review the facts:

1. Hunter laptop story was NOT Russian disinformation campaign. CNN, NBC, Politico, ABC, NYT, Wa Post all spread misinformation stating it was. Another fake news narrative.
2. Twitter incorrectly censored the NY Post story which was true. Jim Baker, ex FBI top lawyer and Twitter council pushed for the censorship under a incorrect guidelines of hacked info. They never contacted anyone to verify if was hacked material.
3. Roth and Twitter was in regular contact with FBI to remove content they didn’t like…not content that was wrong
4. Roth communicated on “message deleting apps” with the FBI and other intelligence agencies
5. Roth and others shadow banned conservatives and politicians which restrict reach. Twitter under oath previously denied this.
6. Adam schift asked back channel Twitter executives for a journalist to be suspended directly. Democrats had back channel access to Twitter executives
7. Twitter banned the President, while allowing Iran supreme leader to call for the destruction of Israel on Twitter to remain. Other South American and Africa leaders had called for political violence, those accounts remained.
8. There was no major Russian Twitter campaign operations about the elections in 2020 or 2016.

The Twitter Stasi is dead and their bodies were on display yesterday. Those folks looked like an embarrassment

The gaslighting in the article is what fake news is made of. Darcy is a joke.

Let’s review the facts:

1. Hunter laptop story was NOT Russian disinformation campaign. CNN, NBC, Politico, ABC, NYT, Wa Post all spread misinformation stating it was. Another fake news narrative.
2. Twitter incorrectly censored the NY Post story which was true. Jim Baker, ex FBI top lawyer and Twitter council pushed for the censorship under a incorrect guidelines of hacked info. They never contacted anyone to verify if was hacked material.
3. Roth and Twitter was in regular contact with FBI to remove content they didn’t like…not content that was wrong
4. Roth communicated on “message deleting apps” with the FBI and other intelligence agencies
5. Roth and others shadow banned conservatives and politicians which restrict reach. Twitter under oath previously denied this.
6. Adam schift asked back channel Twitter executives for a journalist to be suspended directly. Democrats had back channel access to Twitter executives
7. Twitter banned the President, while allowing Iran supreme leader to call for the destruction of Israel on Twitter to remain. Other South American and Africa leaders had called for political violence, those accounts remained.
8. There was no major Russian Twitter campaign operations about the elections in 2020 or 2016.

The Twitter Stasi is dead and their bodies were on display yesterday. Those folks looked like an embarrassment

Chico .. nobody and I mean nobody gives a shit about twitter, what twitter does, what twitter did. A private company operating on whatever terms they want. No body gives a shit except you, MTG and a few other hold outs.

Majority of Americans are tired of hearing all the whining from the far right MAGAs about "lame stream media is sooo unfair to me, no person has been treated more unfairly by the media then by me in the history of the human race"

cry cry cry whine whine whine .. the far right crying for years about being attacked, targeted, treated unfairly .. suck it buttercups

As A-Rod would say, Relax.

The Gov't would have to go full retard to let the shit hit the fan on SS.

Deadlines spur action. So don't count on any serious reform until they have to.

But the "serious reform" = raising the age limit = fan covered in shit just slinging it around the room like a blender that lost its top