But think of the trillions!

Of tax dollars his donors will save.

Our media is bought and paid for by wealthy interests who want all this.

It's actually ironic that MAGA were right that a lot of mainstream media couldn't be trusted... Just for the wrong fucking reasons and instead of being skeptical and thoughtful they just started listening to random asshats on the internet.

You think?.......of course it's stolen

What happens to all of my money I’ve already paid into the system? I’m not at retirement age yet. Are they just going to steal my investment?

The Reupublicans stole that money a long time ago.

It's not like it's sitting there waiting for you to use. Every dollar you pay into SS just goes into the pocket of someone drawing SS. It's a good system but not good if you plan to cut the program. Meaning millions will have paid in for nothing.

It will also destroy old people, since most need it to survive.

It's not your money.

That's the great misconception and lie of Social Security. People think it's like a government run 401k, that you're "investing' in some retirement account every paycheck. That's not at all how it actually functions though. Social Security is two entirely independent things. First it's a benefits program like SNAPP or Medicaid. In that regard Congress votes every year on how much budget they're going to allocate towards paying people Social Security. Literally everyone receiving Social Security cheques in the following year are reliant on Congress deciding to allocate enough money to make sure those cheques don't bounce. Secondly it's an income tax. The two are not connected in any way. The amount of Social Security income tax that the federal government collects each year has absolutely no bearing on the amount of funding that Congress allocates for Social Security in the coming year.

Let that sink in.

Social Security is the world's biggest Ponzi scheme. Always has been. That's a huge part of why a lot of Republicans, particularly older ones (like ones around retirement age) are hand wringing about falling birth rates. Social Security always counted on the idea that there would be more people working and paying into Social Security than the number of people currently collecting Social Security. In a country with a positive population growth that would always be true. It ceases to be true the moment you have a negative population growth rate though.

25 million staving homeless men with a purpose

Ok, but hear me out. We didn't have a ballroom in the white house for fancy parties.

And idiots lap it up and moan about how the Schumer shutdown is going to impact their appointment at the doctor next month if all those crazy socialists, like Nancy Pelosi, don't listen to reason.

Did they really not build a mechanism for us to collectively vote no confidence? I feel like they're abusing every trick in the book and nobody can find a way to stop it

They are just emulating their favorite diety.

This means he’s planning on stealing the money and blaming “the radical left”

No, it's a fact.

Someday the money from the tariffs will trickle down to the common American. Just like the tax cuts for the rich from the 1980s.

The sad thing is, most of us (Americans on Lemmy/Piefed) are probably not going to see why we need social security.

It's basically a government ran pension plan if you can't work. Most of us can work and are. So we don't see why we invented it during the great depression to aid in a social safety net when shit goes south.

And Trump is most likely going to continue plummeting shit into an economy as bad as the Great Depression. Some already had the question of "Do I eat today or do I save up to pay for rent this month?" And Trump isn't the person to solve it, only make it worse.

Most of us probably don't claim the funds from it, and go "Oh this is just for the elderly, not for me. I'm 20 to 30 something and able bodied, this is for when I'm 60 something and walking with a cane."

When Trump guts it and if we have any resemblance of the federal government when we need Social Security, this will probably have lasting effects when we need to claim our benefits.

And the even sadder part, all of his voting base will just nod along. "The gubberment took money from muh paycheck, says so here in muh paystub, fucking woke commie Democrats. Da woke took muh $100 a month, I had to spend that on Trump hats!"

Why wait?

Instructions unclear: we raised taxes to buy more private jets for the administration

Yes! You are a billionaire right? Right??