Ray From Cleveland
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Actually both sides have been working on SS reform and just this year you have to be older to get 100% and that is from the Reagan era..True but the generational bumps is what is hurting them..They get more from what I have noticed. My Ma get maybe five hundred a month and so does my aunt.I will get over a thousand..Woohoo party time(for one hour of one day a year).They won’t get the same level of SS their parents received, even though they paid for their parents’ SS.
The problem with our social programs is as they needed more funding, the politicians didn't do it. So they've been running out of money for years now and will eventually be a huge burden on the country.
It's very simple: if we want these programs (and most do) then we need to fund them. That's all.
No, what's hurting them is the fact no politician on the left wants to raise taxes to support those programs. Because if we did properly fund these programs, many people would demand the elimination of them. We would demand something much better which would mean taking it out of the federal government hands and giving it to the private market. That means less dependency on our federal government which crushes the Democrat party.
However nothing is getting done. Remember that not all jobs are sitting behind a desk pushing papers. There are a lot of physical jobs that most people can't do when they get older. So extending the age to collect only puts more people on SS disability or homeless because they can't find a job at the age of 65 if they get laid off.