The retirement trust fund runs dry in late 2032, triggering an automatic cut for current and future retirees. Every year Congress waits makes the fix bigger.
I can’t wait until this hits. I’ve fully accepted that I ain’t getting shit out of Social Security, but there are a shitload of boomers and other retirement aged people who are not going to understand this (or will refuse to understand it) until it punches them right in the taint (and the wallet)
And yet look at CA prop 40. That was the most “you have to be genuinely incompetent, or a billionaire, to vote no on that”. And it failed. Because humans are fucking stupid and emotional and impulsive and easily manipulated and susceptible to propaganda.
I can’t wait until this hits. I’ve fully accepted that I ain’t getting shit out of Social Security, but there are a shitload of boomers and other retirement aged people who are not going to understand this (or will refuse to understand it) until it punches them right in the taint (and the wallet)
The whole thing goes away as soon as you have rich people pay their share. It’s not a complicated issue at all.
It’s not.
And yet look at CA prop 40. That was the most “you have to be genuinely incompetent, or a billionaire, to vote no on that”. And it failed. Because humans are fucking stupid and emotional and impulsive and easily manipulated and susceptible to propaganda.
I wish people would think more.
Don’t accept it. Burn the country to the fucking ground if it ends up happening. I’ll help.
And guess who’s president then! Just in time for the cliff!
“Its all [insert rival political party here]'s fault!!”
America has lost the plot entirely as a county. A third of them believe a government taking care of its citizens is bad.
I only expect SS to supplement my retirement funds. I ain’t counting on it at all.
Look at the guy over here expecting to retire.