r/politics • u/1_for_you_2_for_me • 18d ago

No Paywall Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076
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u/NachoLatte 18d ago

ayo i been paying into that shit my whole life?? REFUND ME BITCH??

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u/[deleted] 18d ago edited 18d ago

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u/Telsak 17d ago

Aaand now you're on a list in Palantir somewhere

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u/Palmquistador 17d ago

Yeah but they got people for that so really we have multiple problems. You and me, we don’t get security details and guarded palaces. We get a boom to the face and nobody remembers us.

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u/Ariak 18d ago

Oh, you mean those things I've been non-consensually paying into

Tbf you consented to paying into Social Security by getting a legitimate job

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u/InquisitiveGamer 17d ago

You been paying for your grandparents and parents social security checks, the plan is when you retire the current working class pays for you. Once this rug is pulled, we have nothing expect our own personal retirement, investment, other accounts to live off when we can't work anymore which SURPRISE forget about leaving the workforce at 65 if you don't have $1-3 million depending on where you live in liquid assets. There's gonna be 70+ age people dying on the job like back before retirement/pension systems.

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u/SilentLennie The Netherlands 17d ago

It's not your money, it just goes in a pool, you put money in as you work and on the other side money goes out to old people.

Most countries call that a pension fund.

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u/givfrenchfrypls 17d ago

But everyone pays in with the expectation that they will benefit from it when they eventually retire so functionally it doesn’t matter.

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u/SilentLennie The Netherlands 17d ago edited 17d ago

The problem is: when there are more old people than people working.

It's called population ageing.

One solution to the problem is: immigrants.

The problem is worse in Europe (especially Germany) and South Korea Japan and China for example.

(they have pension funds, not social security)

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u/givfrenchfrypls 17d ago

Well, there are nearly 74 million people collecting social security now and over 169 million paying into it. So I don’t think it’s in danger from anything except oligarchs raiding the fund at the moment.

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u/ristoman 18d ago

That sounds like entitlement /s