U.S. Politics

[Richard Smith]

Musk said it was about paying dead people. 
Or maybe it was funding "transgender mice"



 

I don't speak for Musk.  What I was saying is that the money paid into Social Security has been spent for other purposes by the establishment politicians.  They use it as a slush fund for their pet spending projects and endless wars.  That money is gone but the obligations remain.   What is to be done?  Stick your head in the sand and wait for it to collapse or reform the system in which there must be some cutting?

[Michael Capasse]

That would be W Bush - he took money primarily for tax cuts  - Much like your Orange Buffoon is doing now

“Next time a Republican tells you that ‘Social Security is broke,’ remind them that Pres. Bush ‘borrowed’ $1.37 trillion of Social Security
surplus revenue to pay for his tax cuts for the rich and his war in Iraq and never paid it back”.

All other funds from SS were invested
https://meetbeagle.com/resources/post/which-presidents-borrowed-from-the-social-security-fund

[Royell Storing]

   There's plenty of $$ being spent on Illegal Aliens = $$ is there.  Stop with the blame game and fix the SS and FEMA issues.

[Michael Capasse]

   There's plenty of $$ being spent on Illegal Aliens = $$ is there.  Stop with the blame game and fix the SS and FEMA issues.

Tell it to the Orange Buffoon he is all there is now.

[Richard Smith]

That would be W Bush - he took money primarily for tax cuts  - Much like your Orange Buffoon is doing now

“Next time a Republican tells you that ‘Social Security is broke,’ remind them that Pres. Bush ‘borrowed’ $1.37 trillion of Social Security
surplus revenue to pay for his tax cuts for the rich and his war in Iraq and never paid it back”.

All other funds from SS were invested
https://meetbeagle.com/resources/post/which-presidents-borrowed-from-the-social-security-fund

So you agree with me that the Social Security money was spent by the establishment politicians to pay for endless wars!  A policy that Old Joe followed with reckless abandonment in Ukraine.  That money is gone but the question remains what is to be done?   The establishment policy is full speed ahead with spending to stay in power and let the system collapse in a few years.  The Trump policy is to cut back and try to save the system. 

[Richard Smith]

   There's plenty of $$ being spent on Illegal Aliens = $$ is there.  Stop with the blame game and fix the SS and FEMA issues.

There is plenty of money being spent but that is not sustainable.  It's like maxing out all your credit cards.  Eventually the party comes to an end. Leftists complain that Trump/Musk are cutting social programs, but they are doing out of necessity.  The money is gone.  $38 trillion in debt with no end in sight.  The politicians that they supported over the last 50 years have spent all the wealth.

[Michael Capasse]

So you agree with me that the Social Security money was spent by the establishment politicians to pay for endless wars! 

No I don't. W Bush took money and never paid it back.
Show me another one.

A policy that Old Joe followed with reckless abandonment in Ukraine.

Prove it. Where did Joe take any money from a "SS Slush Fund" and spend it on Ukraine?

The Trump policy is to cut back and try to save the system.

  Check back May 1st - Markets are down AGAIN today.

[Michael Capasse]

There is plenty of money being spent but that is not sustainable.  It's like maxing out all your credit cards.  Eventually the party comes to an end. Leftists complain that Trump/Musk are cutting social programs, but they are doing out of necessity.  The money is gone.  $38 trillion in debt with no end in sight.  The politicians that they supported over the last 50 years have spent all the wealth.

Trump refused to veto any congressional spending and added $7.8 trillion to the nation debt.  ("The King of Debt")

"The growth in the annual deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential administration, according to a calculation by a leading Washington budget maven, Eugene Steuerle, co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. And unlike George W. Bush and Abraham Lincoln, who oversaw the larger relative increases in deficits, Trump did not launch two foreign conflicts or have to pay for a civil war."

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20250205/117856/HHRG-119-GO00-20250205-SD008.pdf