The thought of filing for social security/retirement makes me cry. My apologies to everyone who have retired/filing for social security during this time after putting in all those years of work just to lose everything to a problem you weren't to blame for.it's especially difficult for people who are retired.
It has never been easier to understand how to build your money after retirement than it is right now with the inflation, when you may study and experience a completely variegated market passively by employing a successful portfolio-advisor. The impacts of the U.S. dollar's gain or fall on investments, in my opinion, are complex.
@@richardhudson1243 Even you’re not skilled, it is still possible to hire one. I am a project manager and my personal portfolio of approximately $1.5m of my retirement pension took a big hit in April due to the crash. I quickly got in touch with a financial-planner that devised a defensive strategy to protect and profit from my portfolio this red season. I’ve made over $750k since then.
@Craig Daniels Melissa Scott Glazner is my adviser and she is highly qualified and experienced in the financial market. She has extensive knowledge of portfolio diversity and is considered an expert in the field. I recommend researching her credentials further. She has many years of experience and is a valuable resource for anyone looking to navigate the financial market.
@@tatianastarcic Bull. You cannot start from scratch at middle to late middle aged and do a portfolio on small amounts of money. Republicans don't want the average person on minimum wage to have anything. Keep this in mind everytime you vote!
YEAH WHEN THE REPUBLICANS SAY IT WILL BE GOOD FOR AMERICANS, THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT THERE FRIENDS THAT ARE AMERICANS, NOT YOU IDIOTS THAT BLINDLY VOTE FOR THEM...
I am 68 years old and live on Social Security only. I worked and paid into it since I was 14 (I'm unable to work now). It is not an entitlement, it is an earned retirement income. Every private retirement fund I invested in either went belly up, or I was forced to use for personal emergency. Yes, I live below the poverty level, but without Social Security I would be destitute and would have lost the little mobile home I live in. I never vote Republican as I've seen them cut benefits for the poor and disabled too many times through the years. Thank you for what you do, keep it up.
Pence: I won't change anything for you old people because changing it will hurt you. Pence: I want to change it for you young people because changing it will help you. So basically the old way is better, but the new way is better. The Republican grift never ceases.
I'm 42 years old, and five years ago was diagnosed with a lifelong illness, that is robbing me ability to work or even walk. This is frightening. The small social security disability check i receive each month, barely feeds me. Thank goodness for meals on wheels, or I'd truly be hungry! I'm already struggling to make ends meet getting 900 dollars per month for disability. I have no idea what I'll do.
I wish our SSID was better. Needs to be more robust and really take care of people who live or die from it. Really, I sometimes wonder if we ought to just send the people who do not want to take part in our society to another state. I mean, leave, or just opt out, but then they would not be able to have any of the stuff the rest of us do want and are willing to pay for. Like SSID. Like real Social Security, real UBI, I think we should have ALL that stuff and more. I also believe that attaining it would not cost us more than we spend today on the military. We could live like kings and queens if we just got past those gatekeepers of the treasure that belongs to all of us. I do not want to live like a king, that is the wrong point, I am just suggesting that it is just a choice we ought to be able to make if we do want it. They hate the US so much they actively try to destroy it from the inside, but they do not even talk about what they would do if they ever actually achieved seemingly their biggest goals. They would not have any goverrnment to blame for whatever they could not deal with then, the same as now, but it would be way worse because they would destroy our structure that we wanted to build and pay for.
Apply for any benefits you even think you might be eligible for, SNAP, medicaid, housing assistance, local food banks, etc. These programs are for people who need help.
@@robinmeadows4758 thank you so much. My power was actually turned off a few months ago, it's tougher than some people realize to make it on ssi benefits.
I mean Joe Biden has been trying his hardest to make the cuts happen.. Even Obama tried to cut social security. The only reason Joe hasn't made the cuts yet is that he can't look like the bad guy, that's the Republican's job or it will shatter the false notion that Democrats and republicans are somehow different
You are 💯 percent correct even when they are the ones voting on it, and democrats vote against it. It’s the cult state of mind that they are in. Republican voters should be able to get disability because of their mental illness
The Ignorant ReTireds who Always Blame the Democrat President for Corporate Greed Inflation will Continue to Vote RepugliCon & Ignore GOP Social Security + MediCare Financial Sabotage.
Example: The state of Mississippi always ranks last in education and in health outcomes ("we're stupid and fat") but they keep electing R's. You deserve terrible government!
As an outsider 🇬🇧 specifically 🏴 who has been following US politics for about 6 or 7 years, I agree. Not as extreme as the GOP but similarly why do 🇬🇧 people vote Tory because the party's aims are similar. I'm a member of the Scottish National Party and I'm politically middle of the road. I describe myself as a capitalist with a social conscience eg our NHS and benefits system.
I have paid into Social Security for 50-+ years! I'll tell you what, just give us back the money we paid into it after all these years, and we won't need Social Security. How dare they call it an entitlement!
@@maxrobespierre9176 Vote Blue is the right thing to do. I prefer Democrats over fascists and nazis every time. Vote Blue all the way down the tickets!
@@jonhassen2318 I understand your sentiment. I’m simply warning you to expect bitter disappointment when you do. Did you miss the part about Biden wanting to cut SS for decades?
Brainwashed with the usual greatest country in the world, American exceptionalism/ dream etc nonsense 🙄 America is infected with two extremist religions, extremist Christianity and extremist capitalism. Not all are infected but all are affected. I'm quoting myself. I've been following US politics for about 6 or 7 years from 🇬🇧 specifically 🏴.
It's always been the top 1-2% of the wealthy trying to convince those in the middle that everything is the fault of those in the bottom 20%. As long as the wealthiest can continue to do this, it means no one is pointing the finger at them.
This is what happened when the Johnson company replaced pensions with the 401k. They sold it perfectly by telling American workers that they would be in control of their retirements and future but all it did was take the bulk of the investing risk off the company and put it on the workers! Why don't people realize that this is all for profits.
Absof*ckinglutely! I became disabled very young, so I’m stuck trying to live on about 1k/mo. And somehow, I get too much for food stamps. Well, I qualify for $24/mo which obviously isn’t enough to make any difference. And I’m in a Blue state!
I hate how they call social security an "entitlement program". We all pay into that all of our lives and they're trying to act as though it's a handout.
It is an entitlement because as it is our money, we are perfectly entitled to it. That is not a bad word like they want people to think. It is not welfare or a handout at all. It is ours. They want to steal it is what the real deal is.
Social Security is not a retirement account; it's a safety net to prevent the elderly from living in destitute poverty. It's one of the few hugely successful government programs the oligarchy and their allies in Congress have not been able to destroy.
It actually is a retirement account that we are forced to pay into. The rich have figured out how to eat up our PSP/ 401k accounts and now they don’t want to have to pay back the 6 trillion that the treasury owes the retirement accounts. Social Security and Medicare are the last large sums of money that the few rich haven’t been able to get their hands on.
@@TaylerKnox they’re working on it. You’d be surprised at the number of old people I know, Republicans that think that the Republicans are going to give them something better and keep those freeloaders from getting anything. My nephew, a dwarf, gets 700.00 a month. That little freeloader sure is cleaning out the treasury. I gave up 36 cents out of every dollar I ever earned so people like him can get SSI. It should be much more than 700 too.
In "destroy" do you count outright steal? Let's not get it twisted, those same recipients needing those checks, were more than willing to give them to the maggots, who want even more!
WHY, if they're so concerned about the budget... would they be so eager to increase the amount for the military, when the military didn't ask for any? The very first thing the Dotard and Mikey POUNCE did! He needs to go off and retire with Mother, and STFU!
It is an entitlement. The root word is entitled which means a legal right to. Words have shifted meaning because of how they are used. The fascist right in this country (GOP) and right (DNC) have both participated in redefining the term. Just as under “W” when they stated to drop the “ic” off of Democrat to equate the Democrats with “rats” or when the invented word “medicines” supplanted medicinal fir a famous mouthwash. We live in perhaps the most propagandized society in history. And the morphing of the definitions for common words is a feature, not an exception. Eat the rich!
This is exactly the way our companies talked when they wanted to do away with pensions and give us 401Ks instead. I think everyone understands how that turned out. We got screwed.
What about "IT'S OUR MONEY" don't these people get? I want to scream everytime I hear Republicans insinuate that social security is some kind of giant favor the government bestows on us.
why don't the rich politicians cut their salaries and pay for their own healthcare. they are literally living off of taxpayers money, but yet he does not want to pay more taxes.
I'm in Canada. I've been keeping up on the US politics for a while. I could be wrong, but it seems as though the Republicans that want to cut social security don't need that money when they retire. So they don't understand how people need that to survive on. It's very sad to think they don't give a shit. They're supposed to be helping the US citizens, not taking their money away.
I'm 🇨🇦too. Be careful dont even dream that the Canadian Polititians ALL sides and Provincial leaders dont have the same thing in mind. At 73 I cant afford for a rich bunch of elites making these decisions for my future. They are All layers both sides of the border.
I agree with you however I think the Rs understand completely yet they aren't willing to buck the party. If it came down to a witness stand, I think they would know it is wrong to not put in place safe-holds for people. You don't have to be in the situation to know what is right and what is decent human treatment. It's simply never been a valid excuse.
It's disgusting. And people are so uneducated and religious they'll do whatever their preachers tell them to and the church is in bed with the politicians. Trump has torn this country apart. Still no accountability
I will go on a freaking rampage if they cut my social security. I paid into it my entire life. I'm not going to let them steal it from me without a fight. And I really mean fight.
I'm right with you, and they thought (listen, im not saying i would do this) mass shootings were at an all time high right now, I could see it skyrocket if that were to happen. There would be so many of us who will not make it to 70 and will never know the rest retirement brings and given the time to enjoy their family and friends in their wheyning days. Sadly I already foresee I will be working until the day I drop. How Pathetic is it that in Europe retirement is 62 in the majority of the countries yet they want to push us out almost a whole decade past that, the US can no longer call itself a super power, or that Bull💩beacon of light onto of the hill ...🤬You GOP &GOP voter, we should only have gop voters be the only ones have to retire at 70 and we'll see how long they keep voting that way.
Why don't we cut pensions for ex Presidents and Vice Presidents? That will save the country some money. And they're all rich anyway so they don't need it. Do Senators and Congresspeople get pensions? Cut those too!
Republicans have had 60 years to come up with s realistic alternative that could be proven by people wealthy enough not to require it. They did nothing. NOTHING. How About Insider Trading Like Congress People. Steal from Wall Street!
There are lots of people who have paid into social security and don't live long enough to collect it. Look what privatization of prisons has done, it's not pretty and it costs more than it did before.
Leave social security alone, I paid into it for decades and I want what's mine.. Everything they privatize never benefits us... Vote no absolutely not!!!!
lol you have no clue what it means. Privatizing means YOU control that money instead of putting it into SS funds. But that won't work for idiots like you so it should stay as it is. Under control of the government instead of idiots who will bankrupt themselves and waste it and have nothing left for retirement , as you would surely do. As you have just indicated how badly you misunderstand any thing at all about what this means.
People work their entire lives…pay into Social Security…only to have it snatched away? How about let’s get rid of the lifetime health care for all the legislators?
I'm in PA, and $150 a month for SNAP (FOOD STAMPS) IS NOT the problem with the spending. That's only $37.50 per WEEK... You tell me how poor folks are the problem????
I tell you what if the Republicans want to cut Social Security so bad this is what I will need. I have been working since I was 14. I want every dime that I have put into it with interest. Between Social Security and other payroll taxes I pay over $1,500 every two weeks. So raise your hand if your ready to sue the government.
I'm disabled and have been since I broke my back in 2006 (at age 29), I had to fight for three years from 2006 to 2009, and I had been told if I ask for back pay (2006 to 2009) I would again be denied so they stole three years. WHAT happens to people like me?! Without Social Security Disability I would be living on the streets. Before anyone says that is a different account I would argue that both accounts are funded back and forth when one has less in it they take from the other, it is Not one-sided like Republicans tried to say years ago.
Here we go again. Another Republican plan to get their grubby little hands on Social Security benefits that people have worked their whole lives to obtain. I am of the age where I do get a pension from my former employer, plus I do get my Social Security benefits. It is nice to know that the amount I receive every month is a consistent amount so that I can have a budget for my expenses. Tying Social Security to the stock market, even a portion of it, is such a bad idea. Because the people who will suffer the most are the people at the bottom if the stock market crashes. The people at the top won't feel the squeeze at all.
How are Dems not talking about this on every outlet everyday until the next election Prob bc there's a lot of corporate Dems that wouldn't mind privatizing SS either
Social Security is never going broke folks it's literally impossible. The average person must realize this fact and let the politicians know that you know. Cutting Social Security is a con game for the rich. Learn mmt please
It's time to cut the salary of every federal office holder and make a $150,000 ceiling on their salaries. Then maybe senior citizens who are NOT making a half mil a year could actually afford to live.
All that 💰 money, just sitting there without Wall Street and billionaires' grubby fingers controlling potential profits, makes republicans just slobber in frustration.
Next they will be coming after your social security retirement account so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street-Comedian George Carlin/2008.
There is ONLY ONE reform you can propose that will be acceptable to the majority of Americans. Raise the income cap so richer people will pay a larger share into the fund. This has the effect of making the fund bigger and more solvent without risking the fund on gambling.
Leave my social security alone. It's what I live on because I'm disabled. It's less than $900 a month. That hard enough. I go without so much. YET tRumps crones want the rest?
Remember, Republicans love the uneducated, (and let's say this altogether) 'Bc they're easily manipulated.' I simply call them baffons, anyone who votes against their own self interests can only be a buffoon.😡🤬
Literally NOTHING. He has been couch surfing from rumors in the news. He didn't have a house since he lived in the Gov Mansion prior to being V.P and moving to the V.P mansion so after losing it led to him legit being homeless and sleeping on his friends and fellow church members couches etc. I'm not sure if it's still this long but it was certainly for the first 6-9+ months after he left the V.P mansion cause they lost 🤣🤣🤣
I think it's time to cut the elected officials benefits to that of Social Security. Cut their pensions as well. Why are we subsidizing these millionaires?
I’ve paid into Social Security my whole life for a reason. Now I’m 53 and they want to take it away? Ok but, I’m gonna need all I paid in WITH INTEREST and INFLATION for my contribution.
American's r taxed everywhere they go, on money, paychecks, Utilities, gas stations, food, liquor,beer,wine, tobacco and tobacco products, house hold goods.dog and cat food. Cars, extra . Every day, on each and every thing bought. I may not have listed here all, we're r taxed on. It's a lot! Where's all our taxes going ??! Why ??! People work hard. When they r at retirement age, as a taxpayer, their money should be there . For that purpose.
The sad part about this major media outlets don't report this on tv or in the local paper and so the public don't know or understand what is being planned.
How about we privatize all of the pensions for Congress and and their staff including vice presidents and see how that goes over! Let's go back 50 years. And let's let them pick up the cost of their health care.
TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH! That is the answer to the problems of this country! The GOP's vision of the American Dream for wealth in this country is not my vision of the American Dream for wealth in this country!
@@michaelshock6381 Thank you! It's not about spending cuts. It's about the rich paying, who could care less if we live or die. They are some of the most disgusting beings on the planet. Mass murderers kill fewer people than the oligarchy's plan for our America. Cenk is spot on when it comes to wealth in this country!
You guys need to do coverage of that one story of the 82-year-old Navy Veteran working as a Wal-Mart cashier who only got to retire because TikTok users raised over $160,000 for him.
I'll never understand voters that vote against their own interests. Had Trump had a second term, he had it in the fiscal budget to gut Social Security. I'm living on crumbs as it is. Maybe they should legalize assisted suicide. I had money taken from my checks for years and years the same as others and we are expected to make it on a little more than a grand a month. If my daughter didn't move in and split the bills, I'd be on the streets.
Suicide is the best alternative to privatizing services and funding. We are all in grave danger. Let's cut funding for congressional retirements first. Let's cut all funding for congressional healthcare and meds first. Let all congress members live on teacher social security for a month without perks for their housing, transportation, meds, entertainment etc.
How is it that rich people who don't need it, always want to cut the programs that they don't need but poorer people will depend on when they get older. We payed for it with OUR payroll taxes.
I think rich Democrats and others support programs because they know it is attached to homelessness and crime when people are sick and poor. Republicans run always on a platform of cutting social programs which is basically Medicare, medicaid, child credits, food stamps for kids and others.
The thought of filing for social security/retirement makes me cry. My apologies to everyone who have retired/filing for social security during this time after putting in all those years of work just to lose everything to a problem you weren't to blame for.it's especially difficult for people who are retired.
It has never been easier to understand how to build your money after retirement than it is right now with the inflation, when you may study and experience a completely variegated market passively by employing a successful portfolio-advisor. The impacts of the U.S. dollar's gain or fall on investments, in my opinion, are complex.
@@richardhudson1243 Even you’re not skilled, it is still possible to hire one. I am a project manager and my personal portfolio of approximately $1.5m of my retirement pension took a big hit in April due to the crash. I quickly got in touch with a financial-planner that devised a defensive strategy to protect and profit from my portfolio this red season. I’ve made over $750k since then.
@Craig Daniels Melissa Scott Glazner is my adviser and she is highly qualified and experienced in the financial market. She has extensive knowledge of portfolio diversity and is considered an expert in the field. I recommend researching her credentials further. She has many years of experience and is a valuable resource for anyone looking to navigate the financial market.
@Craig Daniels Found her, I wrote her an email and scheduled a call, hopefully she responds, I plan to start 2023 on a woodnote financially.
@@tatianastarcic Bull. You cannot start from scratch at middle to late middle aged and do a portfolio on small amounts of money. Republicans don't want the average person on minimum wage to have anything. Keep this in mind everytime you vote!
Social Security is what we’ve paid into people. It is our money, not the Republican’s money.
They raised retirement age to 67 and it keeps going up
And I'm sure they never paid back what they "borrowed" from our Social security funds. OUR money.
Raise Big Business Corporate & Extreme Wealth Taxes! Reverse the GOP Tax Cuts Gravy Train.
@@andreawest3876 the program is needed and again, it's our money. Many more of us want it than don't.
@Andrea West you did contribute to Social Security, whether you like it or not . Social Security was designed to guarantee you money for retirement.
When a Republican says something will be better for America means it will be better the millionaires and their rich friends.
That is correct!
Exactly
💯%! I just don't get why the NOT RICH Republicans DON'T GET IT!!
YEAH WHEN THE REPUBLICANS SAY IT WILL BE GOOD FOR AMERICANS, THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT THERE FRIENDS THAT ARE AMERICANS, NOT YOU IDIOTS THAT BLINDLY VOTE FOR THEM...
@@christianakalaitzi1645 1000% Agree. That's some powerful cool aide.
I am 68 years old and live on Social Security only. I worked and paid into it since I was 14 (I'm unable to work now). It is not an entitlement, it is an earned retirement income. Every private retirement fund I invested in either went belly up, or I was forced to use for personal emergency. Yes, I live below the poverty level, but without Social Security I would be destitute and would have lost the little mobile home I live in. I never vote Republican as I've seen them cut benefits for the poor and disabled too many times through the years. Thank you for what you do, keep it up.
I agree
Everything’s a money grab nowadays I’m not shocked at all
It is EARNED retirement income ... that you are ENTITLED to!
Pence: I won't change anything for you old people because changing it will hurt you.
Pence: I want to change it for you young people because changing it will help you.
So basically the old way is better, but the new way is better. The Republican grift never ceases.
This is a great point. Even Cenk misses some of the good points. Comment section ftw
Most people that vote rep, don't have the cognitive perception to understand what they are voting for...
Remember: LIES = the official language of the GOP
Hypocrites through and through.
@@t76a2d like mtg shouting liar to Biden on the state of the union, that maker 2 things a liar and a women with no education
I'm 42 years old, and five years ago was diagnosed with a lifelong illness, that is robbing me ability to work or even walk. This is frightening. The small social security disability check i receive each month, barely feeds me. Thank goodness for meals on wheels, or I'd truly be hungry! I'm already struggling to make ends meet getting 900 dollars per month for disability. I have no idea what I'll do.
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I wish our SSID was better. Needs to be more robust and really take care of people who live or die from it. Really, I sometimes wonder if we ought to just send the people who do not want to take part in our society to another state. I mean, leave, or just opt out, but then they would not be able to have any of the stuff the rest of us do want and are willing to pay for. Like SSID. Like real Social Security, real UBI, I think we should have ALL that stuff and more. I also believe that attaining it would not cost us more than we spend today on the military. We could live like kings and queens if we just got past those gatekeepers of the treasure that belongs to all of us. I do not want to live like a king, that is the wrong point, I am just suggesting that it is just a choice we ought to be able to make if we do want it.
They hate the US so much they actively try to destroy it from the inside, but they do not even talk about what they would do if they ever actually achieved seemingly their biggest goals. They would not have any goverrnment to blame for whatever they could not deal with then, the same as now, but it would be way worse because they would destroy our structure that we wanted to build and pay for.
Apply for any benefits you even think you might be eligible for, SNAP, medicaid, housing assistance, local food banks, etc. These programs are for people who need help.
@@robinmeadows4758 thank you so much. My power was actually turned off a few months ago, it's tougher than some people realize to make it on ssi benefits.
I am 70 and on social security and medicare. If those are cut, I want all of the money back over the last 50 years that I paid into it!
I am with you
I used to think this would bury a GOP candidate. Now it won’t hurt him a bit. And somehow they will blame Democrats when SS is cut.
I mean Joe Biden has been trying his hardest to make the cuts happen.. Even Obama tried to cut social security. The only reason Joe hasn't made the cuts yet is that he can't look like the bad guy, that's the Republican's job or it will shatter the false notion that Democrats and republicans are somehow different
You are 💯 percent correct even when they are the ones voting on it, and democrats vote against it. It’s the cult state of mind that they are in. Republican voters should be able to get disability because of their mental illness
Pence the geek was politically buried on J6-2021
The Ignorant ReTireds who Always Blame the Democrat President for Corporate Greed Inflation will Continue to Vote RepugliCon & Ignore GOP Social Security + MediCare Financial Sabotage.
Sadly, we’re a nation of people who regularly vote against their own interests.
Example: The state of Mississippi always ranks last in education and in health outcomes ("we're stupid and fat") but they keep electing R's. You deserve terrible government!
They are to stupid to do anything else 🙄
As an outsider 🇬🇧 specifically 🏴 who has been following US politics for about 6 or 7 years, I agree. Not as extreme as the GOP but similarly why do 🇬🇧 people vote Tory because the party's aims are similar.
I'm a member of the Scottish National Party and I'm politically middle of the road. I describe myself as a capitalist with a social conscience eg our NHS and benefits system.
Don't group me in with the "we"
I voted for Hillary
Americans are not the smartest people.we believe all kinds of BULL SHIT FDT
I have paid into Social Security for 50-+ years! I'll tell you what, just give us back the money we paid into it after all these years, and we won't need Social Security. How dare they call it an entitlement!
If this doesn't scream "vote blue!" I don't know what does. This is insane! 💙
Don’t pull the trigger on that vote blue thing so quick. You do realize that Biden has had SS in his cross-hairs for decades, right?
@@maxrobespierre9176 Vote Blue is the right thing to do. I prefer Democrats over fascists and nazis every time. Vote Blue all the way down the tickets!
@@jonhassen2318 I understand your sentiment. I’m simply warning you to expect bitter disappointment when you do. Did you miss the part about Biden wanting to cut SS for decades?
It's amazing how the rich in America can convince the poor in America to vote against their self interest and instead benefit the rich.
Brainwashed with the usual greatest country in the world, American exceptionalism/ dream etc nonsense 🙄
America is infected with two extremist religions, extremist Christianity and extremist capitalism. Not all are infected but all are affected.
I'm quoting myself.
I've been following US politics for about 6 or 7 years from 🇬🇧 specifically 🏴.
So true Sukhbir!🎯💯
Because they are clueless, uninformed people who do not care to find out what is really going on.
It's always been the top 1-2% of the wealthy trying to convince those in the middle that everything is the fault of those in the bottom 20%. As long as the wealthiest can continue to do this, it means no one is pointing the finger at them.
@@B_Bodziak
Very succinct comment.
Put these republicans on social security and Medicare. Take away their golden parachute forever
100% 👏👏👏
The people that want to cut social security have mega retirement off taxpayers money with full medical paid by taxpayers
Yea that should be cut by alot
Yep yep yep.
They are not "entitlements".
They ARE EARNED!
ENTITLEMTS NAME MUST BE CHANGED! LET'S CALL IT MY RETIREMENT FUND!
I BELIEVE ALL GOVT OFFICIALS SHOUD BE AUDITED, COMING IN AND AT EXIT OF JOB!
Thank you all for exposing the GOP mischievous behind the scenes crap.
This is what happened when the Johnson company replaced pensions with the 401k. They sold it perfectly by telling American workers that they would be in control of their retirements and future but all it did was take the bulk of the investing risk off the company and put it on the workers! Why don't people realize that this is all for profits.
Let them start with deep cuts to their own federally guaranteed retirement and medical plans.
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The only social security reform we should have is raising the amount people get a month.
Absof*ckinglutely! I became disabled very young, so I’m stuck trying to live on about 1k/mo. And somehow, I get too much for food stamps. Well, I qualify for $24/mo which obviously isn’t enough to make any difference. And I’m in a Blue state!
@willowtdog6449 and they wonder why people find "alternate" means of making money...TO FKN SURVIVE!!
Yes indeed, it should be more robust, not cut or lessened at all. FFS we can afford it easily despite the right wing lies about not being able to.
Yes, let's reform Social Security by having Congress repay their skim.
I hate how they call social security an "entitlement program". We all pay into that all of our lives and they're trying to act as though it's a handout.
Apparently the only ppl that are entitled to our social security money are the republicans.
They feel that they are "Entitled" to the money we paid in !!!
It is an entitlement because as it is our money, we are perfectly entitled to it. That is not a bad word like they want people to think. It is not welfare or a handout at all. It is ours. They want to steal it is what the real deal is.
Funny too Social Security is a form of Socialism lol
These trumptards fleecing their uneducated constituents is considered an entitlement to them 👹🐑☠️
Social Security is not a retirement account; it's a safety net to prevent the elderly from living in destitute poverty. It's one of the few hugely successful government programs the oligarchy and their allies in Congress have not been able to destroy.
It actually is a retirement account that we are forced to pay into. The rich have figured out how to eat up our PSP/ 401k accounts and now they don’t want to have to pay back the 6 trillion that the treasury owes the retirement accounts. Social Security and Medicare are the last large sums of money that the few rich haven’t been able to get their hands on.
@@TaylerKnox they’re working on it. You’d be surprised at the number of old people I know, Republicans that think that the Republicans are going to give them something better and keep those freeloaders from getting anything. My nephew, a dwarf, gets 700.00 a month. That little freeloader sure is cleaning out the treasury. I gave up 36 cents out of every dollar I ever earned so people like him can get SSI. It should be much more than 700 too.
Excuse me for counting on Social Security 🤔
In "destroy" do you count outright steal?
Let's not get it twisted, those same recipients needing those checks, were more than willing to give them to the maggots, who want even more!
WHY, if they're so concerned about the budget... would they be so eager to increase the amount for the military, when the military didn't ask for any?
The very first thing the Dotard and Mikey POUNCE did!
He needs to go off and retire with Mother, and STFU!
I, for one, am glad to see what leaders are pushing this agenda. It makes it easier to ID who to vote against in the next election.
It's not entitlement, it's not free. You pay into it.
well it is an entitlement in the sense that there is a law saying if you pay into it, then reach certain age, you're entitled to benefit from it.
It is an entitlement. The root word is entitled which means a legal right to. Words have shifted meaning because of how they are used. The fascist right in this country (GOP) and right (DNC) have both participated in redefining the term. Just as under “W” when they stated to drop the “ic” off of Democrat to equate the Democrats with “rats” or when the invented word “medicines” supplanted medicinal fir a famous mouthwash. We live in perhaps the most propagandized society in history. And the morphing of the definitions for common words is a feature, not an exception. Eat the rich!
The GOP always favors the wealthy over the worker.
If we want our SS to be ok, we can't elect another GOP member....NOT EVER.
Social Security needs to be recapitalized, not privatized.
We can start by taxing corporations and stock transactions.
This is exactly the way our companies talked when they wanted to do away with pensions and give us 401Ks instead. I think everyone understands how that turned out. We got screwed.
Many “ City Pensions “ have the best plans.
You remember it perfectly well, Cheryl. Me too. It was a rip off.
What about "IT'S OUR MONEY" don't these people get? I want to scream everytime I hear Republicans insinuate that social security is some kind of giant favor the government bestows on us.
why don't the rich politicians cut their salaries and pay for their own healthcare. they are literally living off of taxpayers money, but yet he does not want to pay more taxes.
I earned my social security by decades of contributions to it. Don't anyone dare try to take back what was promised to me.
If I tell you once I’ll tell you again….my Social Security is NOT an entitlement 🤬
I'm in Canada. I've been keeping up on the US politics for a while. I could be wrong, but it seems as though the Republicans that want to cut social security don't need that money when they retire. So they don't understand how people need that to survive on. It's very sad to think they don't give a shit. They're supposed to be helping the US citizens, not taking their money away.
I'm 🇨🇦too. Be careful dont even dream that the Canadian Polititians ALL sides and Provincial leaders dont have the same thing in mind. At 73 I cant afford for a rich bunch of elites making these decisions for my future. They are All layers both sides of the border.
Liers
I agree with you however I think the Rs understand completely yet they aren't willing to buck the party. If it came down to a witness stand, I think they would know it is wrong to not put in place safe-holds for people.
You don't have to be in the situation to know what is right and what is decent human treatment. It's simply never been a valid excuse.
It's disgusting. And people are so uneducated and religious they'll do whatever their preachers tell them to and the church is in bed with the politicians. Trump has torn this country apart. Still no accountability
They act like it's coming out of their pockets. We're the ones paying into it dammit! That's our money!
It is coming out of their pockets because every dollar spent is a dollar they can't steal.
i DO NOT WANT MY SOCIAL SECURITY MONEY PUT IN THE STOCK MARKET, PERIOD!
I will go on a freaking rampage if they cut my social security. I paid into it my entire life. I'm not going to let them steal it from me without a fight. And I really mean fight.
I'm right with you, and they thought (listen, im not saying i would do this) mass shootings were at an all time high right now, I could see it skyrocket if that were to happen. There would be so many of us who will not make it to 70 and will never know the rest retirement brings and given the time to enjoy their family and friends in their wheyning days. Sadly I already foresee I will be working until the day I drop. How Pathetic is it that in Europe retirement is 62 in the majority of the countries yet they want to push us out almost a whole decade past that, the US can no longer call itself a super power, or that Bull💩beacon of light onto of the hill ...🤬You GOP &GOP voter, we should only have gop voters be the only ones have to retire at 70 and we'll see how long they keep voting that way.
I'm with you
Remember that when the time comes. Americans need to use all them guns properly for once.
Why don't we cut pensions for ex Presidents and Vice Presidents? That will save the country some money. And they're all rich anyway so they don't need it. Do Senators and Congresspeople get pensions? Cut those too!
It is time to raise taxes on the rich and price gougers.
Republicans have had 60 years to come up with s realistic alternative that could be proven by people wealthy enough not to require it. They did nothing. NOTHING.
How About Insider Trading Like Congress People. Steal from Wall Street!
They tried to pass legislation to stop the price gouging. EVERY REPUBLICAN VOTED AGAINST IT
There are lots of people who have paid into social security and don't live long enough to collect it. Look what privatization of prisons has done, it's not pretty and it costs more than it did before.
Leave social security alone, I paid into it for decades and I want what's mine..
Everything they privatize never benefits us... Vote no absolutely not!!!!
lol you have no clue what it means. Privatizing means YOU control that money instead of putting it into SS funds. But that won't work for idiots like you so it should stay as it is. Under control of the government instead of idiots who will bankrupt themselves and waste it and have nothing left for retirement , as you would surely do. As you have just indicated how badly you misunderstand any thing at all about what this means.
Cutting these programs won't affect the debt. IT IS A SEPARATE TAX!!
THE GOVT HAS NO RIGHT TO THIS MONEY!
People work their entire lives…pay into Social Security…only to have it snatched away? How about let’s get rid of the lifetime health care for all the legislators?
Let's cut their benefits and pensions once they are no longer in office.
That's a good idea 💡
Yes cut social security by reducing politicians pensions and perks. If you prune a tree you start with the top not the roots.
Take money from old people and give it to rich people. That's the Republican way.
"TRADITION!!!!!"
Why don't they cut their salaries and benefits and leave ours which we have been paying into our entire working life?
No we do not need to cut social security!
I think it's better for the country to eliminate Senators & Representatives free healthcare & free retirement!!
Keep spreading your post everywhere
I'm in PA, and $150 a month for SNAP (FOOD STAMPS) IS NOT the problem with the spending. That's only $37.50 per WEEK... You tell me how poor folks are the problem????
I tell you what if the Republicans want to cut Social Security so bad this is what I will need. I have been working since I was 14. I want every dime that I have put into it with interest. Between Social Security and other payroll taxes I pay over $1,500 every two weeks. So raise your hand if your ready to sue the government.
I'm disabled and have been since I broke my back in 2006 (at age 29), I had to fight for three years from 2006 to 2009, and I had been told if I ask for back pay (2006 to 2009) I would again be denied so they stole three years.
WHAT
happens to people like me?!
Without Social Security Disability I would be living on the streets.
Before anyone says that is a different account I would argue that both accounts are funded back and forth when one has less in it they take from the other, it is Not one-sided like Republicans tried to say years ago.
Where was all this concern for the future when they gave away billions to the rich
It's time to cut congressional pensions and medical benefits.
They need to cut their salaries. They are getting rich under the table. That is enough.
Here we go again. Another Republican plan to get their grubby little hands on Social Security benefits that people have worked their whole lives to obtain. I am of the age where I do get a pension from my former employer, plus I do get my Social Security benefits. It is nice to know that the amount I receive every month is a consistent amount so that I can have a budget for my expenses. Tying Social Security to the stock market, even a portion of it, is such a bad idea. Because the people who will suffer the most are the people at the bottom if the stock market crashes. The people at the top won't feel the squeeze at all.
To Mike Dunce: IT'S TIME TO TAX THE RICH and ONLY the RICH!
We have all paid into it. It's our money. We want it left alone. They're not trying to help the people.
Putting that aside, the word entitlement shouldn't be a bad word, it is suppose to be what you are entitle to.
@@biocapsule7311 thank you for the correction. I just re-read what I posted. The video disappeared before I had a chance
How are Dems not talking about this on every outlet everyday until the next election
Prob bc there's a lot of corporate Dems that wouldn't mind privatizing SS either
Politicians are ALL alike. The only thing they’d be good at is for fertilizer.
Cut social security? I paid into it, it’s mine.
Social Security is never going broke folks it's literally impossible. The average person must realize this fact and let the politicians know that you know. Cutting Social Security is a con game for the rich. Learn mmt please
It's time to cut the salary of every federal office holder and make a $150,000 ceiling on their salaries. Then maybe senior citizens who are NOT making a half mil a year could actually afford to live.
No, make it the same as the federal minimum wage ($7.25) and force them to live on that the entire time they're in office.
From the party that voted against increasing the minimum wage and a living wage...meanwhile 1.9 bn dollars tax cuts to the top
Here's an idea: How about you give up your House and Vice-Presidential pensions, Mikey??
All that 💰 money, just sitting there without Wall Street and billionaires' grubby fingers controlling potential profits, makes republicans just slobber in frustration.
Greed is pretty disgusting stuff
They need to give all our money back to each person that paid into it.
I guess for the millions of us living on SS only, we're just f.........if it gets cancelled.
Next they will be coming after your social security retirement account so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street-Comedian George Carlin/2008.
They also use it for ensuring shareholder payouts/profits
There is ONLY ONE reform you can propose that will be acceptable to the majority of Americans. Raise the income cap so richer people will pay a larger share into the fund. This has the effect of making the fund bigger and more solvent without risking the fund on gambling.
Leave my social security alone. It's what I live on because I'm disabled. It's less than $900 a month. That hard enough. I go without so much. YET tRumps crones want the rest?
Why would anyone that is currently on SS or Medicare...etc vote for these guys ever?
Remember, Republicans love the uneducated, (and let's say this altogether) 'Bc they're easily manipulated.'
I simply call them baffons, anyone who votes against their own self interests can only be a buffoon.😡🤬
Blind loyalty
Translation: It's time to funnel that money into our donors' pockets and force people to work until they die!
Billions for war the least possible to the poor
They will force woman to bear kids yet they will starve them.
Eat The Rich! tax them back to reality!
Typical right wing position. Privatize everything.
There's really only 2 problems. Poor people have too much rich people don't have enough.
its not an entitlement its earned and paid for.
If they want social security to stop, give me all the money I gave them with interest…..
@@t2k777 I’d be doing the same thing I’m doing now. Working….
I haven’t forgotten that Mike Pence legitimized the hot mess that is Donald Trump. I can’t believe that he’s still around. What has he done?
Literally NOTHING. He has been couch surfing from rumors in the news. He didn't have a house since he lived in the Gov Mansion prior to being V.P and moving to the V.P mansion so after losing it led to him legit being homeless and sleeping on his friends and fellow church members couches etc. I'm not sure if it's still this long but it was certainly for the first 6-9+ months after he left the V.P mansion cause they lost 🤣🤣🤣
I think it's time to cut the elected officials benefits to that of Social Security. Cut their pensions as well. Why are we subsidizing these millionaires?
Privatising has never in history been a positive outcome.
Is Pence going to help my mom pay her rent? Privatising social security would be a massive disaster.
I’ve paid into Social Security my whole life for a reason. Now I’m 53 and they want to take it away? Ok but, I’m gonna need all I paid in WITH INTEREST and INFLATION for my contribution.
Fuck yes! These goons think they can just take it down and go "oh well that's that"
Exactly!! I'm 58!! Been paying into our social security since 16 years old!! I'm so mad I could just..
American's r taxed everywhere they go, on money, paychecks,
Utilities, gas stations, food, liquor,beer,wine, tobacco and tobacco products, house hold goods.dog and cat food. Cars, extra .
Every day, on each and every thing bought.
I may not have listed here all, we're r taxed on. It's a lot!
Where's all our taxes going ??!
Why ??!
People work hard. When they r at retirement age, as a taxpayer, their money should be there .
For that purpose.
ABSOLUTELY..
The scariest part is how they convince the very people they are going to rob that it's in their best interest.
There is a reason they cut and censor education at every single opportunity
This is exactly why education is being gutted in the US. So that more people vote against their own interests.
Corporate welfare is 5% of the national budget. Welfare for poor families is 2%....things that make you go hmmmm
Privatization has NEVER BENEFITED THE POPULACE……
The sad part about this major media outlets don't report this on tv or in the local paper and so the public don't know or understand what is being planned.
Don't cut social security, cut Mike pence
He's not important....his time is over....and so too, with donald....we let these morons have a floor even when we've removed them.....
"better choices"= "living on the streets at 72 and dying from an illness because you have no health insurance"
"prolife"
How about we privatize all of the pensions for Congress and and their staff including vice presidents and see how that goes over! Let's go back 50 years. And let's let them pick up the cost of their health care.
TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH! That is the answer to the problems of this country! The GOP's vision of the American Dream for wealth in this country is not my vision of the American Dream for wealth in this country!
Keep spreading your post everywhere
@@michaelshock6381 Thank you! It's not about spending cuts. It's about the rich paying, who could care less if we live or die. They are some of the most disgusting beings on the planet. Mass murderers kill fewer people than the oligarchy's plan for our America. Cenk is spot on when it comes to wealth in this country!
Pence didn't believe what he was saying himself. That is why he was blowing so hard and rocking back and forth. All I have to say to him is bye boy!!
To all my fellow senior citizens we have to keep pence Out of the White House if he decides to run.
💯
ANY republican.
@@rickimhotep1236 Republicans suck
Yeah, right..
Have you ever seen PISSED OFF SENIORS???
Don't play with us Pence!!!
And George Carlin was right again…
You guys need to do coverage of that one story of the 82-year-old Navy Veteran working as a Wal-Mart cashier who only got to retire because TikTok users raised over $160,000 for him.
This is a story I want to hear.
Sad
Social Security IS NOT AN ENTITLEMENT, we have paid into it with EVERY paycheck we've ever earned!
You're entitled to it because you paid for it! You are absolutely entitled to it. It's yours
I'll never understand voters that vote against their own interests. Had Trump had a second term, he had it in the fiscal budget to gut Social Security. I'm living on crumbs as it is. Maybe they should legalize assisted suicide. I had money taken from my checks for years and years the same as others and we are expected to make it on a little more than a grand a month. If my daughter didn't move in and split the bills, I'd be on the streets.
I can't ether
Suicide is the best alternative to privatizing services and funding. We are all in grave danger. Let's cut funding for congressional retirements first. Let's cut all funding for congressional healthcare and meds first. Let all congress members live on teacher social security for a month without perks for their housing, transportation, meds, entertainment etc.
How is it that rich people who don't need it, always want to cut the programs that they don't need but poorer people will depend on when they get older. We payed for it with OUR payroll taxes.
And they keep calling in an entitlement program, excuse me !!!!! That is our savings account you want to dip into. I don’t think so !!!!
I think rich Democrats and others support programs because they know it is attached to homelessness and crime when people are sick and poor. Republicans run always on a platform of cutting social programs which is basically Medicare, medicaid, child credits, food stamps for kids and others.