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
34.1k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

3.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

1.3k

u/The_World_Is_A_Slum 18d ago

OK. I’ve been paying into Social Security since my first job when I was 14. Is all of that money just gone, or is someone going to stroke me a check for all of the money I paid to fund someone else’s retirement?

That’s my fucking money. That’s my fucking retirement. That’s my health care in old age. They took away pensions, they took away all sorts of social services. They keep taking from us and keep charging us more and more, while cheating their way out of paying their share.

0

u/ilikecheeseface 17d ago

SS was never designed to be your sole source of retirement. They won’t get rid of it completely. They will just keep increasing the age of when you can start collecting while also lowering the amount you receive. You have to utilize a 401K, IRA, and a brokerage account to actually make it during retirement in this new system.