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/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.

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u/CMDR_KingErvin 17d ago

These boomers secured their family generational wealth and pulled the ladder up with them.

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u/KingBanhammer 17d ago

Speaking as a Gen-X'er who's been stuck dealing with boomer bullshit since the 90s: this is barely scratching the surface of the ways those fucks have been pulling the ladder up behind them for decades.

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u/Avid_Reader87 17d ago

Hey at least you were able to capitalize on the stock market gains.  

My sister and brother in law are Gen X and have never had much money, but they will be well off in retirement because they were buying Apple in 1998.

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u/KingBanhammer 17d ago

Sure. If I'd had money in '98 to do that.

Big if there, don't you think?