Donald Trump warned Tuesday that if the Democrats don’t approve funding, there are dangers to the future of Social Security and Medicare.
Trump said at a press conference that when he asked Democrats for feedback on the funding bills, one said, “It means death.”
“There’s nothing about death,” Trump said. “Theirs is death because they’re going to lose Medicaid, they’re going to lose Social Security, they’re going to lose Medicare, all of those things are going to be gone because the whole country would be bankrupt, and you’re not going to have any kind of medical insurance.”
He’s planning on getting rid of those anyway, so he can continue to fuck right off.
But think of the trillions!
Of tax dollars his donors will save.
I heard Epstein’s island is lovely this time of year.
Social security has been withdrawn frim my paycheck for 40 years… shit better be there for me when its my turn.
Whats more dangerous than a starving, homeless man with nothing more to lose.
25 million staving homeless men with a purpose
Some cuts may be necessary in these trying times
There are YouTube videos on how to build one of these.
I’m pretty sure a few people could just figure one out from memory. Thats like early game minecraft type shit.
The trick is to put a weight on the blade. I watched multiple videos.
The weight helps the blade stay on the track with out straying, which causes friction and less force.
A straight blade is more likely to have issues coming down off track. But cuts best if weighted.
The angled blade was not the best choice based on the videos I saw that tested a bunch of different blade designs.
But weight. Add like 20lbs to the blade. Or make a hydraulics one. There is also a video where some one made one. But the simple one will do the job.
We can always just try again if it fails, not like they are free to go if they somehow survive.
😂
Who knows what the future holds, but anyway the people over the past 40 years receiving social security direct deposited into their bank accounts every month thank you for your obligatory contributions. They couldn’t be living large without you 😜
Many retirees ain’t ‘living large’ as you seem to think. Many need to continue to work to afford groceries, pay rent, and buy medications. So many medications. And medicare doesn’t cover everything you need when your old. You pay for the Part B medicare, a minimum of $150 per month and the cost goes up if you have more money. But you STILL nee to buy extra supplemental insurance to cover the things medicare doesn’t cover. So several $100’s more a month for insurance. And do this while on a fixed income…
If you weren’t living large before you retired, you ain’t living large after you retire.
This is a casual discussion forum, sorry you didn’t see I was exaggerating. Any amount of money put into one’s bank account with no effort is “living large” (slight exaggeration) in my opinion. Hey I’m struggling too. Life is not easy.
The idea behind social security is that the recipients already put in a career’s worth of effort. They paid social security taxes for however many years, and now they are ENTITLED to the payments they receive in their retirement. It’s their money.
I understand but when we had to wait 50 years to get back that money we put into the pot, it’s retirement time and we are literally relaxing, not working anymore. The money appears in our bank accounts while we spend our last few years on vacation.
I’m so sorry you feel like you need to explain the concept of social security to me.
Yes, but the money you get isnt enough to live on when retired. You need huge savings and possibly keep on working into yoyr 70s and 80s
I know. If I ever make it to age 72 my monthly SS will be $2k/month which will probably have the spending power of $50 by then, based on inflation. Even $2k/month now, wouldn’t be enough to survive on by itself.
Someone with actual power.
Anyone else remembers the Cheeto proclaiming that in just two weeks he’d have a healthcare bill that would be better than Medicare?
Pepperidge farm remembers
Someday the money from the tariffs will trickle down to the common American. Just like the tax cuts for the rich from the 1980s.
I cannot wait for the “pepperidge farm” stupid fucking Family Guy meme to just die off.
You don’t need to constantly parrot 20 year old memes. No one is reading that and going “haha, oh man so funny, like from the Family Guy show?? Lmao”
Well that’s exactly what a meme is, it passes on the meta info without having to explicitly say it all. Like Arthur’s first.
To be clear, the day SS is gone is the day I’m willing to pick up a gun and get this party started.
And I know I’m not alone.
This society doesn’t need to continue functioning the day SS stops functioning. So the treasonous Republican party can go ahead and do that and find out what happens next.
The sad thing is, most of us (Americans on Lemmy/Piefed) are probably not going to see why we need social security.
It’s basically a government ran pension plan if you can’t work. Most of us can work and are. So we don’t see why we invented it during the great depression to aid in a social safety net when shit goes south.
And Trump is most likely going to continue plummeting shit into an economy as bad as the Great Depression. Some already had the question of “Do I eat today or do I save up to pay for rent this month?” And Trump isn’t the person to solve it, only make it worse.
Most of us probably don’t claim the funds from it, and go “Oh this is just for the elderly, not for me. I’m 20 to 30 something and able bodied, this is for when I’m 60 something and walking with a cane.”
When Trump guts it and if we have any resemblance of the federal government when we need Social Security, this will probably have lasting effects when we need to claim our benefits.
And the even sadder part, all of his voting base will just nod along. “The gubberment took money from muh paycheck, says so here in muh paystub, fucking woke commie Democrats. Da woke took muh $100 a month, I had to spend that on Trump hats!”
Why wait?
Well if he waits maybe he’ll get a sale on a cool new gun.
The real answer is that DF expects it to be solved without their help.
The president added of Democrats, “We will not be extorted on this crazy part of this. They’ve never done this before. Nobody has. You always vote for an extension.”
JFC. Republicans do this every single time Democrats have control of Congress. And, every single time…Democrats give them what they want, in order to get a deal made. Now that Democrats are finally following the Republicans example, they fuckin’ lose their shit, and everything falls apart.
Gone to funding ballrooms and Argentinian farms
Why can’t we have a no confidence vote and get rid of the party in charge?
“Surrender or it’s your fault that I kill you!”… Fucking cartoon character
They are just emulating their favorite diety.A supporter of the poor and sick, an ancient middle east faith healer grifter and magician, and a real supply side thirst trap
Jesus HGH Christ
Same message Democrats communicated when people demanded a viable non-genocidal candidate who doesn’t thank Dick Chaney for his “service”, surrender or is your fault.
The illusion that Democrats are fighting on your behalf is just that. Two sides of one fascist coin, only one side is rustier.
I don’t disagree that Democrats are problematic and have much to improve. But that “both sides” is some tart kool-aid to drink, to think that things would be the same or even worse had Trump lost. I’d like less rust, please. Also, that definition of fascist is a very broad and loose one if Harris falls into it. Must be the one that Trump used, where it’s combined with “communist”, “socialist”, and other words he has no understanding of.
Yeah dude Kamala Harris was genocidal. Right
The fuck? We’re just straight up whitewashing her stance now?
No dude, I’m just not a fucking moron.
I’ve got no interest in relitigating the election, I’m well aware of what she said regarding Israel.
They have been doing that since they nominated joe without a primary.
They sealed this in place. They knew this would happen.
You all better give a shit, because I fore sure don’t, I can let endless number of people suffer and die without caring the least bit about it, can you?
-Trump the Anti ChristThis means he’s planning on stealing the money and blaming “the radical left”
Channeling my inner Walter White: “You’re god damn right”
Don’t worry, the money will not be gone. It will go to the rich instead in order to trickle down…
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That’s not a warning, it’s a threat.
It’s not to bring down the deficit, it’s to bring down his own taxes.
He wants a redistribution of labor income straight to his pocket.
Rich people don’t pay SS taxes, essentially. There’s a cap on wages that are subject to FICA, and the truly rich don’t live off of wages anyway.
I honestly don’t think he had much to pay tax on until his second presidency. He is probably making more in bribes from this tax policy than he is saving in taxes.
He avoided taxes and refused to make his tax docs public, unlike everyone before him.
I think that has less to do with the amount of taxes (he basically openly admitted to avoiding taxes in 2016) and more to do with the simple fact that your average everyday real estate accountant could probably compare his tax filings with other submissions he has had to make over the years and find clear evidence of fraud and crimes committed.
That basically happened already, which is why he has 34 felonies for lying on the value of his assets depending on if he’s trying to get a loan for his failing businesses, or show a huge loss to avoid paying taxes.
The only reason Trump cares about the shutdown is because his people are telling him he will be blamed the worse it gets.
