Retire? We going have to work until we die because we won’t be getting any social security.
Don’t believe that horseshit “we don’t have money for Social Security” conservative talking point.
- We have money just not the way it’s currently funded
- Cutting social security is political suicide
The only way social security goes away is if conservatives think they can win an election without old people. Fat chance.
Republicans will take away social security, blame Democrats, and their voters will believe them.
The contribution limit was invented decades ago when wealth inequality wasn’t as bad of an issue
If we got rid of the cap, we’d have no problem finding it. And the people above the cap, just don’t need the money anyways.
How many decades ago? Because I seem to be able to trace a wealth gap dating back to days that may or may not have even happened. We don’t know, because recording history on written paper was considered offensive. And religion itself isn’t the best source of info, I get that, but Jesus’s whole existence was supposed to be the whole magic trick of “feed a whole village with one loaf of bread”. With the idea that the whole villiage was full of poor people, and he was providing aid against their hunger.
And in order for that to even be believable in any sense, you first have to be able to agree on the idea that a wealth gap between the elite and the poor was already in existence.
Again, not that religion is reliable in any official sense, but it does help paint the picture that shit’s always been bad.
All they have to do is take it away from future generations while allowing the current elderly generation keep it.
The old voters stay happy and the politicians who screw everyone over are long gone by the time the implications hit.
No lie. I asked a financial advisor when I was in my late 20s, almost 30-years ago.
“You’re getting your Social Security or there will be riots in the streets. Plan accordingly.”
In 1989 we high school seniors said we wouldn’t get Social Security. We will, no matter what.
My disability insurance (private, not public) specifically ends when I’m 60 (or before, if they can find a reason to disqualify me), so it’s basically built in that I won’t be able to retire.
I’ll work until I’m dead, I’ll never be able to retire. Woohoo…
If you’re less than 62 this year, you have to wait till 67 to get full Social Security
I’m pretty sure that means that most Americans will die working
This is very, very bad for the future outlook of our country. It’s real, we’re in it. Something significant is going to have to change soon.
My math says I will work till I can’t and then will have to accept a lower quality of life for whats left and my wife and I end up on medicaid in a nursing home.
Medicare, probably.
Damn… Lucky.
80s probably. They’ll put us in Tokyo style bunk rooms and one meal a day if we aren’t the elite.
F all this nonsense. I plan to die of cancer or something way before that lol. WTF would I want to be 70 in this capitalist hellscape
I kind of assumed it was till we all died at this point. Whether that’s before or after 70…
Well, I worked until i was 69, so I wasn’t far off
