Congress: Don’t wait until Social Security runs out in 2032. Start fixing it now. Redirect recovered fraud and waste into the trust fund — or pass targeted tariffs to fund it. You created this mess. Fix it.
It is OUR money!!
Thank you Mr Secretary
Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for over 40 years on every salary I received. Those jobs may not have always been the work I wanted to be doing at the time, BUT I always had a job. The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.
I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
Congress took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!
Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.
Please, for the sake of our country, share this message. It's important!!!
Gas hit $4.50 when Trump stopped Iran from getting a nuclear bomb.
It hit $5.00 under Biden from massive money printing and the war on American energy.
Two very different problems. Remember which one you were okay with.
To all the Brits trying chick fil a for the first time and realizing how awesome it is…the reason you don’t have it in the UK is because the alphabet mafia protested it because the owners are Christian.
The tolerant left. Well done.
One unexpected, but pleasant, side effect of the World Cup is hearing every day things that we take for granted here in America.
People from other countries are amazed that you can walk into Home Depot and buy a door. They are amazed that you can buy things over-the-counter like ibuprofen and melatonin.
Watching visitors experience America through fresh eyes is a good reminder that a lot of what feels ordinary to us is anything but.