This is bullshit. If Social Security is truly in crisis, why did the GOP just blow a massive hole in its funding with the "Big Beautiful Bill"? That law showers the top 1% with an average tax cut of $66,000, over $100,000 for the wealthiest in states like Texas, while the bill's $500 billion price tag adds trillions to the national debt. If they can afford to give billionaires a massive break, they can afford to protect the system we all paid into.
And let's be clear: workers have been paying into Social Security their entire lives. The fund is on solid ground for decades, but if left untreated, it's projected to be depleted by 2032. This would trigger a 22% across-the-board cut to benefits. The solvency date moved up by a year, in part, because Republican policies have accelerated the shortfall.
Now Mike Johnson has been caught on tape saying that entitlement programs "have to be adjusted and fixed" and that Republicans "have a plan to do that next year." His own words.
So here's what's happening: the GOP cut revenue for the rich, worsened Social Security's timeline, and now wants to fix the "problem" they helped create, by slashing the benefits we were promised.
They aren't trying to save the system. They are manufacturing a crisis to justify dismantling it, all while working for the top 1%.
We paid into this. We are not asking for a handout. We are asking for what we earned.
They're letting Social Security fail because they refuse to scrap the cap and make the super-wealthy pay their fair share.
Letting Social Security become insolvent is a choice.
Something we can all appreciate Justin Allgaier saying while thanking the media for their work the past two weeks
"I'm tired of the AI crap that's getting posted."
We are now in a weird era where a guy gets publicly shamed for running his sprinklers on a Tuesday, while a data center the size of a Costco quietly drains a reservoir so AI can generate a picture of your cat as a medieval knight. And the data center gets a tax incentive for it.
Anyone who says they are going to Congress to fight for the citizens of another country should be immediately disqualified from ever holding public office in America.
This is just batshit insane.
I hate what AI is doing to publishing. I hate what it's done to the job market. I hate how it's ruined the internet. It's wrecking students' education and making people question every piece of content. I miss the world before AI more than I miss the world before the pandemic.
> la IA contaba mal el inventario en Starbucks
> Microsoft bloqueó claude code para sus propios ingenieros
> Uber no encuentra el ROI después de gastar miles de millones en IA
3 derrotas de la IA esta semana en el sector laboral.
WE ARE SO BACK