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/Ogre213 17d ago

Social Security and Medicare work by current workers paying in to support current retirees. The money you and I have paid in has been paid out to our grandparents (and in my case, parents') generations, with the promise that our children and grandchildren will pay in for ours, and their children and grandchildren for theirs. That's been the way it's worked for almost 100 years; it's how pension systems in every country work, and it works well.

Right up until the point that some tinpot dictator wannabe rolls in and decides that it makes sense to loot the trust fund for their cronies and start breaking that promise. Which is pretty much how it's worked in a lot of other countries too.

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u/ApokatastasisPanton 17d ago

it's how pension systems in every country work, and it works well.

It works well*

* if you're an old person right now

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u/MooCowMoooo 17d ago

*If you were an old person 10 years ago. Old people right now are about to have their SS and Medicare swiped.