Summary
Despite Donald Trump’s promise to avoid Social Security cuts, recent signals from the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, suggest reductions may be forthcoming.
The department, aimed at streamlining federal spending, has sparked concern among advocates worried about potential impacts on the program.
Trump’s mixed messaging and DOGE’s focus on cost-cutting have intensified scrutiny as officials prepare policy recommendations.
Time to start stocking up on riot supplies.
Like anyone will even care about what’s happening to them?
Just look at recent surveys, where economic sentiment is basically political opinion now, not how people are actually fairing: https://www.axios.com/2024/12/06/trump-economy-democrats-republicans-inflation
The metric was not like that before.
But we are in an era where influencers, feeds and whims trump reality and fact. I thought COVID-19 proved that, but it’s pretty much irrefutable now, and people (on average) are going to care less about what’s physically taken away than how some angry influencer makes them feel about it.
My sentiment is that all the economic indicators were quite good under Biden, even with inflation - esp. as contrasted with other nations. Not perfect, but likely worse under donvict. Now that we are even getting inflation under control, the qons will act like they really had a “landslide” victory and do all kinds of stupid things to fuck it all up. Including tariffs, apparently.
Right now, the stocks went through what looks like a sugar high type of scenario due to donvict’s win and what some people think he’ll do for them (tax cuts and no federal oversight?). Not sure that will last.
But if donvict does the kinds of tariffs he is talking about - it’s anyone’s guess just what that will result in. Never mind some of the other chaos and destruction he and the parasitic class will do…
Oh, and one other comment is this - Democrats tend to understand how tariffs work. They also probably have some inkling about what would happen to the economy under mass deportations and the related state terrorism that would entail…
Qons, on the other hand, are told ridiculous fairy tales about the price of eggs, and believe them.
It won’t hit the elderly, they’ll cut based on current age. It’s anyone under 40 that’ll be fucked.
I’m mid-50s, and expect my share that I’ve been counting on for more than 3 decades of work to be disappeared. Pull the rug out at the last minute.
I’m Gen-X and have been screwed by Boomers (and younger deplorable “Gen-X Boomers”) my whole life. T***p was one final fuck-you to my generation. The Gen-X morons don’t yet realize their own self-goal.
Agreed. I’ve watched donvict nearly my entire life. I remember this asshat back in the 80s and thought he was a scumbag dipshit back then. The idea that any people my age - Gen X - and younger voted for that POS sickens me.
I think I now realize how boomers that were in the know about Ronnie Raygun watching that dipshit get two terms felt. Whole lotta dumbfucks voted for that asshole, too. Only historians will be able to tell which one did longer term damage. We have donvict only because of the dumpster fire that Ronnie Raygun started…
Oh good, that’s me. 9/11 in middle school, wars through high school, '08 housing crash in the middle of college which pushed me to pivot to an AA instead of bachelor’s, COVID wedding at 31, insane inflation through now. We finally bought our first house a few months ago and I turned 36 a few days ago. Things were starting to seem like they might turn out okay after all. Serves me right for having a whisper of optimism in my brain for once.
Pensions in this country are nearly non-existent. Without social security either, only the wealthy can retire. Thankfully, I’ve had retirement accounts for years, but they’ll be wiped out by the first late life medical emergency I experience. Without social security to look forward to, I think a lot of people would rather live through total societal collapse than give their everything just to prop up this system that gives nothing back. It’s a bad fucking deal.
My retirement accounts just got wiped by 5 months out of work. I’m over fifty and starting that shit over. I’m very lucky in that my father in law will supposedly leave us around a million dollars when he dies, but that’s a morbid and fragile situation. If, deity forbid, we got a divorce, I’m guaranteed to have to work until I keel over. Also if he experiences long term hospitalization, that’ll eat that up super quick.
Even if we get full social security, that’ll drop our income by something like 80% and our house isn’t going to be paid off until we’re close to 80.
My wife is blissfully ignorant and considers our retirement to be “taken care of.” I hope, babe, because kibble is going to be hard to chew once we can’t afford dental care…
Wait, is he using his kid as a human shield now? Not one time has he been holding a child now suddenly it’s part of his wardrobe. Lmfao.
I wonder if Trump is going to pay back the $1.3 trillion that W “borrowed” from the fund?
Thats our money. We paid into it. They are stealing from us.
Two wealthy billionaire immigrants hired to pilfer American livelihood because the Government borrowed and bet from our Social Security— and lost the money. Now they see no other way out of insolvency.
Certainly Elon and Vivek aren’t going to start paying their fair share of taxes, so it’s steal from the poor and give to the rich.
This is the correct take away. They’re using it to fund further tax cuts to the wealthy.
