Thoughts on DOGE?

[watu05]

"The richest man in the world is trying to convince the American people that they all deserve less.

In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Elon Musk spread debunked lies about Social Security and Medicare to justify eliminating them.

...Trump has said he won’t touch Social Security or Medicare, but Musk’s entitlement math makes it clear that both those programs, as well as Medicaid, are on the chopping block."

I agree that Social Security has to be 'fixed', but doing it to make sure the top 0.5% get their trillion dollar tax breaks is not the way to do it. And Musk is absolutely the wrong person to fix it.

 

[lawpoke87]

"The richest man in the world is trying to convince the American people that they all deserve less.

In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Elon Musk spread debunked lies about Social Security and Medicare to justify eliminating them.

...Trump has said he won’t touch Social Security or Medicare, but Musk’s entitlement math makes it clear that both those programs, as well as Medicaid, are on the chopping block."

I agree that Social Security has to be 'fixed', but doing it to make sure the top 0.5% get their trillion dollar tax breaks is not the way to do it. And Musk is absolutely the wrong person to fix it.

We’re either going to have to lower payments, raise retirement age or increase the SS tax. Of course we’ve known this for years and no one has the courage to tackle the issue. Not saying Musk is the right person but I do give him credit for finally having the fortitude to bring forth proposals.

Same with our deficit. We all know where this path heads. A world where we won’t be able to pay for basic social safety nets for our most vulnerable. Not sure what the solution is but I’m sure glad we now have a discussion.

 

[astonmartin708]

We’re either going to have to lower payments, raise retirement age or increase the SS tax. Of course we’ve known this for years and no one has the courage to tackle the issue. Not saying Musk is the right person but I do give him credit for finally having the fortitude to bring forth proposals.

Same with our deficit. We all know where this path heads. A world where we won’t be able to pay for basic social safety nets for our most vulnerable. Not sure what the solution is but I’m sure glad we now have a discussion.

Baby boomers got theirs now it’s time for them to screw the rest of us over one last time?

Sounds about right.

 

[TUMU]

Baby boomers got theirs now it’s time for them to screw the rest of us over one last time?

Sounds about right.

You are so full of to make such a general statement.
I've been paying into Soc Sec for 52 years. Haven't been paid one penny yet from Soc Sec.
I haven't and won't be screwing anyone when I begin Soc Sec.

 

[lawpoke87]

The only people screwing us are the politicians who decided to throw social security receipts into the general fund and then spend the same so they could conceal the deficits they were running. They’ve known this day was coming for decades and chose to do nothing

 

[astonmartin708]

You are so full of to make such a general statement.
I've been paying into Soc Sec for 52 years. Haven't been paid one penny yet from Soc Sec.
I haven't and won't be screwing anyone when I begin Soc Sec.

Just because you haven’t doesn’t mean others haven’t.

You must be on the very tail end of the Baby Boomer generation.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Just because you haven’t doesn’t mean others haven’t.

You must be on the very tail end of the Baby Boomer generation.

She's a child of a baby boomer, and she's not even anywhere near the oldest. You can be in your late 50's and be a child of a baby boomer.

Suggestion...

 

[TUMU]

Just because you haven’t doesn’t mean others haven’t.

You must be on the very tail end of the Baby Boomer generation.

Wow, you must be smarter than I thought you were, to have figured those two things out.

 

[aTUfan]

Baby boomers got theirs now it’s time for them to screw the rest of us over one last time?

Sounds about right.

 

[aTUfan]

Privatize. let each person accumulate his retirement using his current fica deduction to fund his own retirement account, and keep
it away from politicians It would be inherentable