My mother passed at 81 years old in July. She worked up until 2 months prior to her passing. She was a proud woman who would never ask for help. When she passed we went to her 600' apartment in Sarasota. Going through her paperwork, we discovered she was receiving $1388 a month gross in social security. That money was taxed, and she netted less than $1250. She paid into that most of her life, and they still taxed these monies. This is pathetic.
The money from her pay was for Medicare. But I agree no tax on social security, if you make above the amount that they allow them they want you to file a tax statement at the end of the year and it is bull____!!! we already paid taxes out of our paychecks. I feel that the IRS needs to be audited as well as all of our government!! Cancel the IRS and put forth a straight tax for all including the people that pay no taxes....
Folks it is not that they cannot pass an audit. The government was setup under a completely different set of accounting principles. We are now trying to shove a square peg in round hole with GAAP for government books. Will never work. We either need to restructure entire budget and programming process or develop an alternate method to audit
I was in the military and worked for a military contractor after that, the scale of waste is unimaginable and criminal, and ironically after all the money they spend, the military is less effective.
And they want to raise the age to get social security. How about we pay for it by taking away lawmakers pension & retirement. How about we make the wealthy pay into social security vs not having to pay once you reach 250k
I would agree with Rand Paul if he and all his fellow elite members of congress would give up their plush government insurance and retirement and switch to Social Security and Medicare like the rest of us. Rather than fully vested after 5 years, they must also work the same amount of years like us peasants do before they can get retirement benefits.
Senator Paul stands up to reveal Waste & Fraud…..Yet his only solution is to raise the retirement age instead of stopping the waste & fraud that he’s exposing!!! Meanwhile a man that merely points for a living will never understand back breaking work and how the body wears out!!
Rand Paul and his elite members? Rand paul lives a halfway normal life with a nice house, compare that with the actual elites with their millions and multiple mansions. Big difference, and it's because they are bought and paid for. There's no comparison.
They have a reading problem, since most of this spending is a violation of what is written in the U.S. Constitution. How much money is sent to foreign nations and 750 military bases all over the world, while the invasion of our Southern border is ignored?
How could anyone trust the politicians who have driven the US off a cliff for 60 years to fix their messes????? They have a vested interest in seeing that the scams that made them rich, stay in place.
It's expensive to maintain two residences, etc. It's an important job and should well paid. Campaign finance reform is desperately needed, that's where the problems lie
Tariff's only effect goods being imported or exported..... if we hadn't exported our own manufacturing then this would be a net boon. We need to rebuild our manufacturing industry, we need to stop relying on having our goods imported from oversea. Build an economy from the ground up, then Tariff the shit out of other Countries that want access to our markets = Profits
I think you are missing the point of tariffs a tariff is designed to do just that. The Idea is to make it worthwhile for production to take place here. It does make products more expensive because we demand to be paid more than what say Chinese people are willing to work for. We can’t continually rely on other countries to produce important goods that we need.
That won’t get rid of the debt or deficit. I agree that stuff needs to stop….but to actually reduce the debt you have to look at both the military and social security / Medicare……you can cut all discretionary spending (EVERY CARE PACKAGE TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY AND EVERY AGENCY IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH GONE) and still would be in debt without cuts to military and entitlements…wake up
@gp877 okay let's look at the person getting SS and cut the one's who have a lot of money in the bank or like the senator said cut off the one's who does not need it. A lot of us who are on SS did not make a lot of money but worked until we were 70 are older. We did not have a 401 had never heard of it. If you cut the one's like me you are going to have a lot of people homeless and I would be one.
@@gp877Didn't Congress borrow money from SSN for other things. Instead of cutting benefits as the go-to first step, shouldn't we first look at why contributions to it didn't work? As far as other entitlements, why didn't all the recent deindustrialization not create long lunch lines like the comparatively small factory closing of the 1930s cause?
From the very beginning, the full retirement age (FRA) for Social Security had been 65 years of age. At the time, life expectancy was 60.7 years. In 2022, the life expectancy was 77.5 in the United States. Furthermore, in developed countries, the number of centenarians is increasing at approximately 5.5% per year, which means doubling the centenarian population every 13 years, pushing it from some 455,000 in 2009 to 4.1 million in 2050. Without addressing the FRA to life expectancy issues, the current Social Security system is simply unsustainable. If FRA is not incrementally adjusted (keep in mind that COLA is adjusted). there will be nothing for anybody. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy Please also note: the money you paid into Social Security is NOT the source of the benefits you receive, the money being paid into it by the current workforce is where your benefits come from. It's like a government run Ponzi scheme, and it will collapse if the money coming in isn't enough to cover the payments being made to beneficiaries. This has been happening since 2021. Adjustments and reform are required for the program to remain solvent. The first monthly payment was issued on January 31, 1940 to Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, Vermont.[34] In 1937, 1938, and 1939, she paid a total of $24.75 into the Social Security System. Her first check was for $22.54.[34] After her second check, Fuller already had received more than she contributed over the three-year period. She ultimately reached her 100th birthday, dying in 1975,[34] and she collected a total of $22,888.92.[35] - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Social_Security_in_the_United_States The system was fine when there were approximately 5 workers for every retiree. It doesn't work all that well in today's times.
I really believe that the American people are tired of the waste going on in government. It is unsustainable and needs to be cleaned up and run like a real business.. transparency and accountability and DOGE
The People should be exempt from taxes until their money is spent solely on the betterment of the American people and not swindled away. The People are literally working harder and longer to pay off interest on reckless spending that doesn't benefit them whatsoever.
Those pet projects on both sides are totally ridiculous. Why do they need funding for Molasses. Is there a shortage? I want names of the Senators or Reps who keep blowing money.
Weird how they never talk about cutting welfare. We work, we’re forced to pay and they want to cut social security or raise the age of retirement. Most people on welfare have never worked, never paid and it’s just their way of life. How about cuts to that? How putting a time limit to how long people can collect welfare? I don’t mind helping people when they’re down, but not when they have no intention of doing better. I have worked, I have paid and I am tired.
Instead of being a handout our welfare system needs to change to include some strings attached. Classes every 2 months, mandatory! Food nutrition, household budgeting and other home care classes.
Spontaneous mandatory drug and alcohol testing. Test positive? Lose all benefits! Also, stop paying SS benefits to people from other countries who say they’ve paid into their own country’s retirement (without proof), and are not collecting from their own country.
@ I don’t know what your point is? Rich people have their money confiscated by the government by paying social security taxes also and therefore are due their social security checks.
I don’t understand the SS issue lol like wtf take money from it? It should have only been individual accounts with taxes keeping up with inflation/pay raises so that everyone can get their money when it’s the time and it doesn’t go insolvent. But no, we gotta further steal people’s money and waste it on Ukraine and everything else
Ponzi scheme , not stealing , but the design is simple it’s basic pyramid structure that with longer lifespans,fewer feeding the new money in and the pyramid is upside down. It has to tip over in one way or another. social security should never have been created or forced into our paychecks.
Omg this is one of the most important civics lesson as a voters. I’ll be showing this to my teen who is interested in finance. Financial literacy is key guys. DOGE is simply teaching the American people HOW TO READ THE FINEPRINT!! This is how you avoid scams in life. 🔥 🔥 🔥
It's amazing to me how these politicians say "why can't you keep working all the way through your 60's?" I would love to see Rand Paul, my senator here in KY, come to any job site and be able to perform as a carpenter. I firmly believe he couldn't make it through a full week of work. And he's my age. It's pretty hard for a guy in his 50's, 60's plus, to climb, carry lumber all day, be out in the elements all day etc etc. because our jib involves more than sitting on your ass and giving endless speeches and never really accomplish anything
That sounds about right but that group is a very small percentage of the Social Security pool.You’ll pay one way or another,you’ll get your Social Security and your taxes will go up,so you’ll gain nothing
You're kidding right? I'm all for SS for those who paid into it but saying Rand Paul of all people doesn't understand a hard days work is wild. He is one of the few senators who isn't a career politician...he was a ophthalmologist and even founded an org in southern KY to get people who couldn't afford it eye surgery...during covid he literally volunteered at hospitals to help with how overwhelmed they were crazy take tbh
I don't just want audits, I want a website/blockchain ledger with every single dollar spent & a copy of the receipt & a picture of item purchased. If the irs wants proof from US 🇺🇸, we demand proof from y'all
It should not be called entitlements, the public pays into SS from their pay and work throughout their lives. Why give tax cuts to corporations and billionaires?
Which is exactly why Congress n the senate voted against oversite on the funding of foreign aide to Ukraine!! They don’t want to be held accountable for their corruptions
It's not nearly enough, and besides most of what we give is weapons and ammunition. You can't really pay SS with that. What you should be saying is Social Security and not Military Industrial Complex
@@racool911exactly this. Months before the invasion on Ukraine, defense contractors raised their prices on their arsenal. People are barking up the wrong tree.
You most likely don't realize that the US military aid that Ukraine receives is of older military equipment and weapons that are being phased out. The US military's older equipment and weapons are being replaced with newly manufactured ones. Also, Ukraine will be repaying America for much of our military's surplus that would soon be slated to be decommissioned and wasted. At least Ukraine would pay for this aid to protect themselves from Russia's invasion of their sovereign nation. Also... they don't ask for troops. Ukraine defends themselves with only their own citizens in combat. And here is the real bargin... Russia (Putin) isn't going to stop with Ukraine... his next targets are the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Then, to Romania and Poland. When this occurs... it is WWIII, and sending aid to Ukraine is the bargain of the century. Because if America is drawn into a European land war, it will cost America trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of American lives. Ukraine can stop Putin if they are properly armed and equipped. Also, Ukraine has an estimated 7 trillion dollars of natural resources they are sitting on and have offered to open up access to their resources as a way to repay the costs of defending themselves. This has been proposed to soon to be president Trump, and he is currently weighing the opportunity. I think you've been misinformed or perhaps haven't had an opportunity to learn additional details about the war in Ukraine and how it benefits both America and Ukraine at the same time. I would call this a win-win-win.
How about we cut costs?? Not telling people that we'll be taking money longer, but waiting to give it back you. That's NOT the solution. That money is OUR money!! What about CUTTING Congress' pay?? They never consider that, it seems ... but they DO consider giving themselves a raise 😡
Notice how Rand Paul never considers the other way to help Social Security - raise the Taxable Earnings limit. Why should people who make a large salary suddenly get a 6.2% increase in Take Home Pay on wages over $168,600. Every middle income and lower folks have to pay SS tax on all their earnings - why not the wealthy?
This is exactly my thought. There should not be a cap on earnings for social security or raising the social security age. Everybody pays their fair of what they are making. If I can pay 25-30% making under $60,000 when working, so can the wealthy.
I’d like to know if the Biden administration got any money back from the 85 billion dollars worth of military weapons left behind in the Afghanistan handover??
Always the faceless pfps calling for cutting American people's medicare and SS. Lmaoo russian bots. You want to find more money? Look to your corrupt politicians. Gave themselves a nice pay raise today.
Funny, Sen Paul never wants to talk about how credit is created. He’d rather ramble on about the increasing debt to people who don’t have enough intelligence to ask the right questions
SS is not something for nothing. We pay into that. There are other "something for nothing" benefits like giving away money to people who are in the country illegally, paying off student loans with taxpayer money and so on that should be cut. Not Social Security!
Social Security is a TAX, it is NOT an investment plan. Tax payers pay a TAX into Social Security, and as Sen. Paul reports SS tax receipts are less than benefits paid out. Social Security is NOT an investment plan.
@@michaelb6529 You obviously weren't alive for the decades that Social Security was sold to the public as A RETIREMENT INVESTMENT PLAN NOT A TAX. Social Security deductions were only declared to be a "tax" under Obama. The government changes the terms as it suits them but you sure never see their retirement benefits getting reduced or their pay getting reduced.
Even more insulting is that most of those 'non-Americans' are being given our SS money that we paid into, plus they get even MORE than those on SS who paid in. Take those off and let Tom do his thing. That will help.
Well if you’ve been paying attention, the pentagon was just approved for a budget of almost a trillion dollars. Names are being named but no one seems to be paying attention. That amount is ludicrous when you factor in the fact the DOD has never been able to pass a financial audit.
I have worked and paid in to SS for 40 years not by choice . You politicians call it an entitlement that can be changed or altered yet I have had no choice but to pay for 40 year’s
how about their raises are based on us voting whether they deserve one or not, not just when they feel like voting it for themselves ... that's total bs ... you don't get a raise unless your boss (us in this case) does a review and gives you performance improvement criteria if your slacking ... and these jerks have been slacking and "politicking" for ages ... they need to go and the law changed
Hey, Sen. Paul. Here's an idea. Why not put an extra 1% tax for every $250,000 a person makes per year. Use that to fund SS. I am guessing you would never consider tax increases for the wealthy? I live in Kentucky just like you! I don't know one farmer who is driving a fancy sports car. Also I agree with you about military spending. Why doesn't Congress address this? Not Elon Musk. We did not elect him. Also, you seem so focused on the debt. However, Trump increased the debt by 8 trillion during his last term. And he wants to get rid of the debt ceiling. I am guessing again, you are ok with Trump doing away with the debt ceiling? Just know, we are listening to you. And we are not stupid.
I’ll never forget watching my drill sergeants try to calm down a private who was bawling his eyes out trying to package away food that was going to be thrown out after chow time after our first range exercise. He was completely inconsolable because of all the food he saw being thrown away while his brothers and sisters at home were starving every night.
The problem is the people in that room do not understand how to run a business. They just want to give free stuff and get reelected. If you want to change the system, change the incentive for the politicians ! Require performance to stay in office ! If we don’t balance the budget, they are not eligible for reelection.
Some and or a lot of budgets are off. Budgets in business meet requirements. The required projection for a business is to increase and or to prosper. Here should be no poor people! That budget seems to be swinging for business's continuing on like they're blind, hearing impaired, and disabled while acting for the poor they're most important as to why they're in business for and then they're saying the working class. God bless us.
@apt7prod what about in 2008 when the stock market crashed and millions of people lost all their savings in their 401k right when they were about to retire?? Is that on them too?? Not everything is black and white
In Australia you cannot access government ‘Age Pension’ payments until you are 67. There are other government ‘payments’ available for disability etc. So if you are a normal healthy Australian you work til at least age 67. In this day and age you can easily work to age 70. Why wouldn’t you want to? I’m 77 now, and worked to age 72, only stopping because my employer changed my role. I was a very happy and willing worker.
Average SS= $1700? Average SSDI= $1050? They know what they are doing. They want 70 year olds going up the scaffolds in construction...if they die on the job they don't get to collect.
Federal SS Full Retirement Age requirements and payment schedules based on progressive Birth Years already exist. 67 years is the Full Retirement Age for a person born in 1960. Federal Disability payments are 30% less than the designated SS schedule, so it's a cheaper cost. All Federal Disability payments are cancelled once the birth date meets SS Full Retirement Age schedule. Disability can't be claimed when the person hits SS Full Retirement Age.
Eliminate SS disability outright. As for SS in general, make it so you only get what you put in and then the money spigot is turned off. Gradually phase out the program one way or another. Raising the retirement age is actually the most mild approach they could take hence why that's what you always hear from conservatives. The US government does some of the worst socialism the world has ever seen, it needs to just stop.
Spenfing is only part of the problem. The wealthy / very wealthy must pay more! About 45 years ago three trends began, increasing Inequality, decreasing wages, deficit spending. These were choices of tax policy. We can choose to reverse these trends too. For example, the shortfall in social security savings is mostly explained by how the rich receive their income. Which they take in ways that avoid the traditional social security tax. Their missing contribution is the missing portion of the funds money. The US economy has become much much more productive over the last 45 years, obviously. Ask yourself why regular people are not feeling more prosperous. It is because the wealth generated has been transferred by tax policy to one class of people.
I agree with some of Rand's views but to call social security an entitlement is an insult to those of us who have worked our entire adult lives paying into it. Ive seen numbers that suggest that the payments would be almost triple what they are now if government wouldn't have put it into the general fund. THAT is fraud. If any private company had done that, they would be in jail.
They’re giving the new immigrants all the same Social security benefits we get n many of them get more😡it’s just mind blowing what they’re doing n getting away with it
no American is going to agree to SS cuts until you pay back money you stole out of SS fund, Chip Roy said yesterday that they where again going to take money out of SS
💯💯💯 EXACTLY!!!! They send terrorists over $40 Million a WEEK and pay pensions to the families of their dead Soliders we killed while they tried to kill us! UNACCEPTABLE
Here in Tennessee I know farmers who get government funds to plant then get other subsidies a few months later to destroy those same crops. Farmers either do this program, or do the math and take the "don't plant anything" subsidy and get paid to leave field barren - all while food costs are going through the roof.
I'm a Democrat who agrees with Rand Paul with a few exceptions. - We all paid for our social security. I don't believe I'm getting any more than I put in (except cost of living raises). When I got my benefits statement, it showed what I put in each year and what my monthly check would be when I retire. It didn't give me extra ENTITLEMENTS for being a nice guy, good American, hard worker or caring for an aging parent. - It's what Rand Paul didn't say. that concerns me. Why is Congress giving themselves raises while griping about social security raises? Are there a lot of Senators about to go on the bread line? Rand, I realize that nixing the raises won't balance the budget, but at least, put some skin in the game. --Why did President Trump give large tax breaks to corporate America (as well as planning to do it again in 2025). Are there CEO's out there in danger of becoming homeless? This is why Americans are distrustful of their politicians (of both parties). -Why isn't tax fraud in corporate America being investigated aggressively? In 2015, candidate Trump bragged about gaming the tax system. His logic was if taking a deduction was clearly unethical, but not illegal, that made him a smart businessman. He said in the same breath he was the only one who could drain the swamp. -Why are so many Congressmen afraid of confronting Trump when they disagree with him on a policy they know is wrong for America? If he (or Musk) primaries a Senator or Congressman and they lose their jobs, will they need to apply for public assistance? Grow up and LEAD BY EXAMPLE!!!
I mean atleast he is coming up with ideas and putting them forth. I can respect atleast trying to come up with something. I mean i think he makes it pretty clear that without cutting social security or medicare in some signifcant way you're not going to be able to ever balance the budget and are doomed for bankruptcy. 2/3 of the spending budget of trillion is 4 trillion and is for entitlements to american people and consider that 1/3 of the spending bill basically is applied to the deficit, meaning we could cut out everything else but social security, medicare and we would be very close on balancing the bunch, but that would be no military funding at all, or any aid to any where, to fund any governement function would be a direct cut to social security or medicare, so lets hear your idea about what specifically should get cut in those bills because they take up 100% of all the money we make as a country, leading no room at all for children cancer research even, since it was a topic of discussion in this event on capitol hill. I mean something gotta go, tell me what is it?
Do not raise the maximum age of retirement! Find our money that was stolen when the ss account was moved to the general fund. Move the retirement age for congress to 100 years old? Rand Paul, your math doesn’t take into account that your forcing people who may be struggling to stay in the workforce to long. Easy for you to say to us that we have to work longer and we still may not get anything.
It was always in the general fund dummy, social security never made sense you can’t takeout more than you put in paid by the people paying in now that’s by definition a Ponzi scheme
I’m so disappointed that the Republicans are actually talking about cutting entitlements first I’m a huge Trump supporter by the way I cannot believe with all the leverage leave one they’re gonna actually discuss cutting that before every other foreign a dollar is cut
@ that’s terrible. I lost half my projected benefits after they raised the max retirement age to 70. I’d already paid over 30 years into social security when I got that shot to my chest.
I am paying into the social security for the last 40 years. If government keeps taking out loans to pay for other things, instead of leaving the fund to let it grow. Why aren’t rich people and corporations pay taxes as everyone else.
Loopholes, m'dear. Loopholes, credits, and alternate investments. Did you know that most of the average wealthy ($10M+) person's actual assets aren't spendable, they're instead leveraged to increase what's seen as wealth. Imagine rolling half your 401 every year into a trading account that nets +20% and then maxing out your 401 contribution for the year, with any excess going into other tax-deferred shelters, the whole back end of which is done by an LLC you're a board member of and have expenses paid directly by that LLC with very little actual income to tax.
There is a reason you can’t get flood insurance in the private sector in coastal areas: the risk is simply too high. The government has no business subsidizing flood insurance. It needs to be grandfathered out, and no new policies should be written. If you can’t afford to live on the coast, move inland.
Why should we accept you moving up the age limit on SSI just because YOU ALL in Washington spent too much money over the years and put us in this situation! 🤔
The problem is that it has always been a ponzi scheme. I have paid into it just like everyone else, but I have no expectation of it being there for me in the future because being trillions in debt and adding to it like drunken sailors will not end will. It cannot. It will not.
If left alone and if you are on it now, you may be lucky that there won't be any cuts. If you are going on it in the next 10-15 years you will have a 20-25% cut. Without any changes either increase in revenue or decrease in benefits by 2032 it will be broke! Will someone be an adult and pick your poison to save social security!
exactl will not cost a cent more to eliminate the wep gpo garbage it is already paid and if we did not have a small govt pension we woud get our full ssi and it would not cost a cent more , my opers pension is paid seperately by the state retirement not the govt in the first place they have been stealing from us citizens for years with this bowl sht
I was running a small business during that time. I had 9 dudes working with me. I had 90 customers. Due to that covy sh*t show and all the crazy that surrounded it. I closed my doors let go the 9 guys I had working with me. I did apply for that relief I was denied.
What about the people you throw in jail without a victim to cross examine? REALLY $500,000.00 A INMATE IN NEWYORK PER YEAR. They work them for $2 a day. While Fortune 500 companies walk free able to sell commisary at overprised costs (ten cent ramen for two dollars). Arrest them for waisting our money its a crime.
It's NOT 40%, it's "only" 3.8%, but it's still not right. People on Soc. Sec. only got a 2.5% COLA increase. Civil servants NOW get Soc. Sec. benefits ALONG with their damn pensions when they retire. MORE BS.
Stop lying. It was NOT 40%. It was 3.9% and it was removed from the bill. Either way, these jackoffs don't deserve a dime more, but we don't need to lie and say it was 40%.
What does he mean "entitlements"? Social Security is not entitlement. People paid for it in their whole life! Instead of talking nonsense, make FICA (federal insurance contribution act) tax for everyone, including yourselves! You are going to cut taxes for wealthyanyway. So 12% of FICA tax is not going to hurt wealthy. Are you going to do it? Of course, NO!
"Entitlement" is simply a technical term for guaranteed, meaning the government is legally required to meet their obligation to pay it. Has nothing to do with "give aways", yes we all paid into it, and the government by law is required to pay it back when we retire.
So you don't know about Social Security Disability then. Look into it. People get onto it and leech for their entire lives. Also people who live too long end up taking way more from SS than they paid in. SS costs the US government over $1.4 trillion per year. Either SS gets cut or the US dollar dies. Same with all the Medicare etc. These entitlements (yes that's what they are) cost too much. It's that simple. You want to keep the gravy train rolling? Well then we're gonna have to raise those taxes...a lot. On everybody not just the rich.
Entitlement to me means the recipients are entitled to the money. It is not charity. Its is not investment in infustructure or industry. It is something they are due. It is a right.
Loans backed by untaxed assets should be considered income! And, banks should have to turn over guarentees to the IRS - and the value of the assets guarenteeing these loans should be taxed annually while they are being used as collateral!
Yeah, and rising the age is their way of fixing it so most will die before they get to or draw for a couple years and then pass on and the government keeps all of it. When we paid into it all are life and still paying. How about this people 40 and under don't get to collect it but also don't have to pay more into it and phase it out over time. which would take about 30 years. Because the government has dipped into it spending it for other reasons causing it to go broke that's what this is. If they didn't there would be a surplus. And another thing they don't get. They spend billions for places like the Ukraine and take our retirement to pay for it. Yeah, it's time these losers do not get a check or get out of government.
Amen brother, From canada. I'd rather be put into the work force at 13-14-15 years of age and retire at 50... I'd much rather have a school system that identifies my strong suits and applies me accordingly into the work force through accompanied training. "Hey this kid really likes big trucks, lets put him on a path that pushes big trucks, driving, and transportation ( making good money ) Or hey, this kid really enjoys the concept of building, lets put him into a field that requires construction or engineering.
@@Mr.Maret5 people are barely living that long anymore due to the disgusting food and health care- nobody is working until they’re 70, most ppl already have serious health issues by 70..i dont know what world Mr Rand lives in, but it’s not the real world.
I really have an issue with sendings billions to other countries with no complicated thinking but giving that same money to Americans requires a full speech from a Senator who doesnt mention my point. Shut up Rand.
Go ahead and add up every single billion sent to every nation combined. Then compare it to SS and Medicare costs. SS and Medicare absolutely dwarf foreign aid. You could fund 10 Ukraines and 10 Israels for what those entitlements cost. $1.6 and $1.4 trillion respectively. Defense is $820 billion. Ukraine and Israel combined are less than $200 billion. Rand is just telling the truth and you don't want to hear it. Don't get me wrong I want to end foreign aid especially to Ukraine. But when you look at the US debt problem the real culprits are SS and Medicare.
@@Ziegfried82No matter how you slice it? The government is spending THE PEOPLES MONEY, while filling THEIR OWN POCKETS. All of it is corrupt, evil greed.
Entitlements are called entitlements for a reason, so that older people can have a quality of life--they paid into this program! Cut the military budget and work for peace in this country.
You've been creeping the age of when you can begin benefits. Why is this bad? People who are heavily dependent on Social Security for their retirement have poor health care and physically hard jobs. The longer you have to do this work the more broken you are. Once again it is the poor that suffer. Do a responsible job in cleaning up fraud! 99% of people who are receiving Social Security need that money.
Rand....raising the age? really? Im sure theres other places the government could stop spending on things less important than the thing our populace pays into and in so many cases need. Maybe less billions outside the country, too?
I agree with you, however Rand knows the government will not stop spending or giving our money away. I’m sure he doesn’t want to raise the retirement age but it seems like to keep it funded it’s the only thing to do.
Hey Rand, as a U.S. Senator, have you EVER paid anything to Social Security? Oh, I looked it up: You didn't start paying social security taxes until it was changed in 1984. Now, U.S. Senators pay into social security, but they ALSO have a separate retirement benefit added to their normal high salary. Many of us American pay double social security, as we are self-employed. Don't complain about social security benefits, when you get TWO retirement packages as a U.S. Senator !
He is just another scumbag politician sponsored by a Koch think tank. Bribery. He will likely get an executive position with an enormous salary at a Koch business and never have to show up to work once. That's the way they do it in America. Freedom!
Whoa, at 4:13 , we are not giving SS money, they operate out of a trust fund that is funded by payroll deductions. On the contrary SS trust lends money and collects interest. But I agree with the narrative that spending has to be reigned in. How about putting congress on the the same work benefits as the rest of the nation. That is just the beginning
I have read many of the comments about SS and agree that 70 is getting too old for retirement unless you have a good job that you like and are physically able. I retired early for physical reasons. My job was somewhat physical and I could see that I was no spring chicken. However, I live comfortably on less than what, (guessing), 90% of Americans would consider a living wage, along with giving approx. 28% of my gross income to charity.. I own property and my house and live in Salem, OR, ( more expensive than many places in the states).. I admit that I am and always have been very conservative with money matters. I also, have to admit that giving to charity, when I can see the great results, is one of my joys in life. I like the idea from many of the comments about young people wanting to opt out of SS and handle their own retirement. Yes, get rid of SS completely. I have not researched it, but it looks like I will get more out of SS than what I put in in the 40 plus years that I worked. Unless I die pretty soon. .
I believe the majority of ppls have had more than enough of this double standards bs and barely scraping by while politicians live luxurious lifestyles n retire with awesome benefits! Makes me sick
As much as I like Rand Paul, he's completely wrong on FURTHER raising the age of retirement. It's easy for politicians to talk about cutting Social Security or raising the age of eligibility when they all have a golden parachute retirement plan with health plans that give them the ability to survive into their 80's and even 90's while Social Security/Medicare recipients have to try to survive with garbage "health care". The real way to fix Social Security is to raise the FICA tax. Period. The younger workers will not like the idea but in reality the amount of increase in their FICA deduction will be minuscule.... less than a cup of Starbucks coffee per check. Also remove the cap on income... completely. No matter how much a person earns they should pay the same percentage as minimum wage workers. Yes, eliminate waste and fraud in Social Security but do not increase the retirement age. The American Dream ends with a retirement that a person can actually enjoy... not dying before they can retire or collect SS or being so frail or sick that life beyond that point is meaningless... sitting in a chair or lying in a bed is not "retirement". My recent retirement was at 66 years and 8 months... almost 67. How much time do I have left? Not a lot. How is that fair? Working until you die or working until you're an invalid is no incentive to work in the first place. "Golden Years" no that rarely happens... unless you're a Politician or Bureaucrat. Why do Congress and President/Vice President get raises nearly every year? Pay for all politicians should be reduced immediately by 50% and all politicians should be retirering with only the same benefits that Social Security recipients get... MEDICARE not a Cadillac health care plan.
Nurses', plumbers', construction workers', etc, backs and knees are ruined from the work stress well before age 70. Politicians, who use their mouth (blah, blah) much more than their back, are clueless about body damage from hard physical work.
There's too much to unpack in your long message without writing an equally long one. Do some research on several of your points. I'm not suggesting congress should get a raise, but actually look up the last time they got one.
I think what Rand Paul is trying to say is that he doesn't want to increase the age requirement on social security, but we're literally spending 2 trillion dollars more than we have every year and every time you say something about social security or medicare you get major negative public feed back from people who don't understand that some really tough budget decisions are going to need to be made thats going to be justifiably attacked, I mean something like Children's cancer research, while i certainly don't want to defund cancer research for children, i think realize we're losing over 2 trillion every year that maybe we need to look at cut backs on all programs universally, including alot of our presence in the middle east, but I'm worried about israel we should not abandon israel, alot of these other places we should think about ending some aid, ending proxy wars, yeah It can't survive without cutting something on social security and medicare, so do you go into bankruptcy or what do you look at cutting, whats the things that can be cut, what kind of benefits if removed negatively impacted americans the least. its a hard conversation to have and basically suicide for a reelection cuz no one ever thinks that social security, or medicare be cut in any way, in fact it should be added to. I think balancing the budget is a step to creating a system that support social security growth, but currently we don't have the capabilities.
Trump has to put a fix in place before shutting down the gov't. Elon and Vivek are working to cut spending and waste. Dems are crapping their pants over it too.
1. You force us to pay into social security 2. You only give us a percentage of what we paid into it. 3. You call it an entitlement, and then you threaten to take away! It’s my money, I earned it and it’s not an entitlement! How about Congress pass a law starting say like for 2025 that anyone that is 18 and older doesn’t have to pay into social security anymore. Let’s phase it out altogether. I’m sure we would be better off if we kept that money and invested it ourselves.
Stop social security, Right! And then, when all those young persons today are older and saving nothing, just like right now the older persons had done, our magnanimous government is going to give money to those same people that never worried about saving anything! There is a problem on both sides; that magnanimous government illegally gives the money that our same government confiscated during most of the taxpayers working years to people that never paid into that. Have you heard of California giving illegals social security? You might say is not true, but check it out. And I bet that California is not the only state. That's where the abuse is. Even our own citizens, just because they are older, and in need, receive social security but never paid into it. Our so called goverment dispenses of the taxpayers hard earned money like there is no tomorrow. What is the solution? I say help all the veterans and the elderly in need, and the rest send them to work. I don't care if they are single moms, or single dads, or whatever; if they didn't pay into it, they should receive ZERO money!
Fraud and mismanagement of funds should be an oversight bookkeeping process in all departments. Not taking away funds that have been properly allocated….That’s what we the people want. Wasteful spending and mismanagement of taxpayers money should have oversight committees
My mother passed at 81 years old in July. She worked up until 2 months prior to her passing. She was a proud woman who would never ask for help. When she passed we went to her 600' apartment in Sarasota. Going through her paperwork, we discovered she was receiving $1388 a month gross in social security. That money was taxed, and she netted less than $1250. She paid into that most of her life, and they still taxed these monies. This is pathetic.
The money from her pay was for Medicare. But I agree no tax on social security, if you make above the amount that they allow them they want you to file a tax statement at the end of the year and it is bull____!!! we already paid taxes out of our paychecks. I feel that the IRS needs to be audited as well as all of our government!! Cancel the IRS and put forth a straight tax for all including the people that pay no taxes....
My mom had a similar experience, she passed in2021 at 71, small apartment never asked for help etc
Print money
The whole system is a pathetic scam where we all get screwed an politicians of both parties get rich taxing us.
Then they also charge for Medicare, and you can't refuse it (unless you also refuse your Social Security) ... It's a damned racket!!
No audit is a criminal act, WHY can’t they have fiscal audits, it’s not their money is the people’s.
Sounds like a whole lot of corruption.
The Pentagon has failed the last 7 audits!!! Trillion dollars are missing and cannot be found!!
immunity, privacy, sealed cases
Folks it is not that they cannot pass an audit. The government was setup under a completely different set of accounting principles. We are now trying to shove a square peg in round hole with GAAP for government books. Will never work. We either need to restructure entire budget and programming process or develop an alternate method to audit
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I was in the military and worked for a military contractor after that, the scale of waste is unimaginable and criminal, and ironically after all the money they spend, the military is less effective.
And they want to raise the age to get social security.
How about we pay for it by taking away lawmakers pension & retirement.
How about we make the wealthy pay into social security vs not having to pay once you reach 250k
HOOAH & AMEN Shalom Shalom ❣️🙏👑
Roger that.
I would agree with Rand Paul if he and all his fellow elite members of congress would give up their plush government insurance and retirement and switch to Social Security and Medicare like the rest of us. Rather than fully vested after 5 years, they must also work the same amount of years like us peasants do before they can get retirement benefits.
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Agree, and this is coming from someone who likes Rand Paul.
Senator Paul stands up to reveal Waste & Fraud…..Yet his only solution is to raise the retirement age instead of stopping the waste & fraud that he’s exposing!!!
Meanwhile a man that merely points for a living will never understand back breaking work and how the body wears out!!
So u want congress to have so bad they resort to being bribed. Pretty smart.
Rand Paul and his elite members? Rand paul lives a halfway normal life with a nice house, compare that with the actual elites with their millions and multiple mansions. Big difference, and it's because they are bought and paid for. There's no comparison.
For them to give themselves a raise in that funding package was pretty despicable
Tired of the government corruption.
There is only one way to stop it, it's written in the Bill of Rights
Specially democrats
It’s a a dam shame Paul isn’t in the Trump administration the problem is he is to valuable to the senate
Tired of capitalism and the corruption it costs us.
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How especially Dems???
We don’t have a tax problem, our government has a spending problem.
Yeah out of control spending problem
They have a reading problem, since most of this spending is a violation of what is written in the U.S. Constitution. How much money is sent to foreign nations and 750 military bases all over the world, while the invasion of our Southern border is ignored?
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Maybe you America should have kept the America dream quite now everybody want to come to the USA which then dilutes the dream.
How could anyone trust the politicians who have driven the US off a cliff for 60 years to fix their messes????? They have a vested interest in seeing that the scams that made them rich, stay in place.
How about cut the politicians pay instead of them getting raises
*WHY DO YOU HATE FREEDOM?!🇺🇸*
It's expensive to maintain two residences, etc. It's an important job and should well paid. Campaign finance reform is desperately needed, that's where the problems lie
that would make such a little difference in the amounts that we are talking about
It would be a symbolic gesture but it would be the right thing to do.
@@sasqetshenkley1190why would that be hating freedom
Tariff's only effect goods being imported or exported..... if we hadn't exported our own manufacturing then this would be a net boon. We need to rebuild our manufacturing industry, we need to stop relying on having our goods imported from oversea. Build an economy from the ground up, then Tariff the shit out of other Countries that want access to our markets = Profits
I think you are missing the point of tariffs a tariff is designed to do just that. The Idea is to make it worthwhile for production to take place here. It does make products more expensive because we demand to be paid more than what say Chinese people are willing to work for. We can’t continually rely on other countries to produce important goods that we need.
It's flat out MONEY LAUNDERING!
Don’t cut Social Security or increase the retirement age. Instead stop sending OUR money to other COUNTRIES.
That won’t get rid of the debt or deficit. I agree that stuff needs to stop….but to actually reduce the debt you have to look at both the military and social security / Medicare……you can cut all discretionary spending (EVERY CARE PACKAGE TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY AND EVERY AGENCY IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH GONE) and still would be in debt without cuts to military and entitlements…wake up
Marcmalon: 100% agree
@gp877 okay let's look at the person getting SS and cut the one's who have a lot of money in the bank or like the senator said cut off the one's who does not need it. A lot of us who are on SS did not make a lot of money but worked until we were 70 are older. We did not have a 401 had never heard of it. If you cut the one's like me you are going to have a lot of people homeless and I would be one.
@@gp877Didn't Congress borrow money from SSN for other things. Instead of cutting benefits as the go-to first step, shouldn't we first look at why contributions to it didn't work? As far as other entitlements, why didn't all the recent deindustrialization not create long lunch lines like the comparatively small factory closing of the 1930s cause?
They're NOT.
70 is insane! While they keep buying yachts and expect everyone to die before they can retire. Out of touch insane A Holes.
From the very beginning, the full retirement age (FRA) for Social Security had been 65 years of age. At the time, life expectancy was 60.7 years. In 2022, the life expectancy was 77.5 in the United States. Furthermore, in developed countries, the number of centenarians is increasing at approximately 5.5% per year, which means doubling the centenarian population every 13 years, pushing it from some 455,000 in 2009 to 4.1 million in 2050. Without addressing the FRA to life expectancy issues, the current Social Security system is simply unsustainable. If FRA is not incrementally adjusted (keep in mind that COLA is adjusted). there will be nothing for anybody. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
Please also note: the money you paid into Social Security is NOT the source of the benefits you receive, the money being paid into it by the current workforce is where your benefits come from. It's like a government run Ponzi scheme, and it will collapse if the money coming in isn't enough to cover the payments being made to beneficiaries. This has been happening since 2021. Adjustments and reform are required for the program to remain solvent.
The first monthly payment was issued on January 31, 1940 to Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, Vermont.[34] In 1937, 1938, and 1939, she paid a total of $24.75 into the Social Security System. Her first check was for $22.54.[34] After her second check, Fuller already had received more than she contributed over the three-year period. She ultimately reached her 100th birthday, dying in 1975,[34] and she collected a total of $22,888.92.[35] - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Social_Security_in_the_United_States
The system was fine when there were approximately 5 workers for every retiree. It doesn't work all that well in today's times.
I really believe that the American people are tired of the waste going on in government. It is unsustainable and needs to be cleaned up and run like a real business.. transparency and accountability and DOGE
Yep.
Tired of paying for all politicians pensions & top notch health care & rand wants us to work til we're 80
The People should be exempt from taxes until their money is spent solely on the betterment of the American people and not swindled away.
The People are literally working harder and longer to pay off interest on reckless spending that doesn't benefit them whatsoever.
100% correct
That the way of American life in a nutshell😂
Those pet projects on both sides are totally ridiculous. Why do they need funding for Molasses. Is there a shortage? I want names of the Senators or Reps who keep blowing money.
Exactly 💯 this is nolonger okay or acceptable!!!!
You would have EVERY name of every Senator and Congressmen . They ALL do it!!!
Weird how they never talk about cutting welfare. We work, we’re forced to pay and they want to cut social security or raise the age of retirement. Most people on welfare have never worked, never paid and it’s just their way of life. How about cuts to that? How putting a time limit to how long people can collect welfare? I don’t mind helping people when they’re down, but not when they have no intention of doing better. I have worked, I have paid and I am tired.
Instead of being a handout our welfare system needs to change to include some strings attached. Classes every 2 months, mandatory! Food nutrition, household budgeting and other home care classes.
Spontaneous mandatory drug and alcohol testing. Test positive? Lose all benefits! Also, stop paying SS benefits to people from other countries who say they’ve paid into their own country’s retirement (without proof), and are not collecting from their own country.
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@ I don’t know what your point is? Rich people have their money confiscated by the government by paying social security taxes also and therefore are due their social security checks.
Amen
Stop stealing money out of social security fund cause you don't put it back!! 😡
That what obama did to fund obama care..
I don’t understand the SS issue lol like wtf take money from it? It should have only been individual accounts with taxes keeping up with inflation/pay raises so that everyone can get their money when it’s the time and it doesn’t go insolvent. But no, we gotta further steal people’s money and waste it on Ukraine and everything else
make every thieving project that took from it, pay it back
Ponzi scheme , not stealing , but the design is simple it’s basic pyramid structure that with longer lifespans,fewer feeding the new money in and the pyramid is upside down. It has to tip over in one way or another. social security should never have been created or forced into our paychecks.
They didn't steal. It never existed
Omg this is one of the most important civics lesson as a voters. I’ll be showing this to my teen who is interested in finance. Financial literacy is key guys. DOGE is simply teaching the American people HOW TO READ THE FINEPRINT!! This is how you avoid scams in life. 🔥 🔥 🔥
Absolutely 💯 Agree Fiscal Responsibility an Civics Should be Taught in the USA School System
Avoid scams like Social Security!!
So you willingly participate in a scam to avoid being scammed🤔 Americans are not too bright
It's amazing to me how these politicians say "why can't you keep working all the way through your 60's?" I would love to see Rand Paul, my senator here in KY, come to any job site and be able to perform as a carpenter. I firmly believe he couldn't make it through a full week of work. And he's my age. It's pretty hard for a guy in his 50's, 60's plus, to climb, carry lumber all day, be out in the elements all day etc etc. because our jib involves more than sitting on your ass and giving endless speeches and never really accomplish anything
Feel the same! I'm an HVAC contractor at 65. People have no idea. Its like being a pro football player in their 60’s.
Amen!!
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That sounds about right but that group is a very small percentage of the Social Security pool.You’ll pay one way or another,you’ll get your Social Security and your taxes will go up,so you’ll gain nothing
You're kidding right? I'm all for SS for those who paid into it but saying Rand Paul of all people doesn't understand a hard days work is wild. He is one of the few senators who isn't a career politician...he was a ophthalmologist and even founded an org in southern KY to get people who couldn't afford it eye surgery...during covid he literally volunteered at hospitals to help with how overwhelmed they were
crazy take tbh
You guys have got us in such a mess. We are damned if we do,and damned if we don't.
If the government can not find and fix the waste then they are not doing their job! We the people need to replace the government!
We started the process of replacing the government earlier this year November 5.
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Im 63 i don't want to wait 2-3 more years. Give me the money I've already contributed
I don't just want audits, I want a website/blockchain ledger with every single dollar spent & a copy of the receipt & a picture of item purchased. If the irs wants proof from US 🇺🇸, we demand proof from y'all
GREAT IDEA
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No Rand if we quit dulling out money to foreign countries and wars.. THERE'S PLENTY OF MONEY THERE!
You sound like he's in favor of sending our money born out of debt to countries we have no business helping fight a war.
Rand wore a yarmulke and bowed at the wall. He's not for us.
It should not be called entitlements, the public pays into SS from their pay and work throughout their lives. Why give tax cuts to corporations and billionaires?
You shouldn't even be touching social security we the American people pay for that not the government
Too late! It's been touched almost to death!
No auditing encourages corruption which can only lead to bankruptcy.
Which is exactly why Congress n the senate voted against oversite on the funding of foreign aide to Ukraine!! They don’t want to be held accountable for their corruptions
How about Social Security and NOT Ukraine every couple of months for a change.
Aid to ukraine is a tiny percentage of the money we need to save SS
It's not nearly enough, and besides most of what we give is weapons and ammunition. You can't really pay SS with that.
What you should be saying is Social Security and not Military Industrial Complex
@@chrisderhodes7629 No but it would be a good start!!
@@racool911exactly this. Months before the invasion on Ukraine, defense contractors raised their prices on their arsenal. People are barking up the wrong tree.
You most likely don't realize that the US military aid that Ukraine receives is of older military equipment and weapons that are being phased out. The US military's older equipment and weapons are being replaced with newly manufactured ones.
Also, Ukraine will be repaying America for much of our military's surplus that would soon be slated to be decommissioned and wasted.
At least Ukraine would pay for this aid to protect themselves from Russia's invasion of their sovereign nation.
Also... they don't ask for troops. Ukraine defends themselves with only their own citizens in combat.
And here is the real bargin... Russia (Putin) isn't going to stop with Ukraine... his next targets are the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Then, to Romania and Poland. When this occurs... it is WWIII, and sending aid to Ukraine is the bargain of the century. Because if America is drawn into a European land war, it will cost America trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of American lives.
Ukraine can stop Putin if they are properly armed and equipped.
Also, Ukraine has an estimated 7 trillion dollars of natural resources they are sitting on and have offered to open up access to their resources as a way to repay the costs of defending themselves. This has been proposed to soon to be president Trump, and he is currently weighing the opportunity.
I think you've been misinformed or perhaps haven't had an opportunity to learn additional details about the war in Ukraine and how it benefits both America and Ukraine at the same time.
I would call this a win-win-win.
How about we cut costs?? Not telling people that we'll be taking money longer, but waiting to give it back you. That's NOT the solution. That money is OUR money!! What about CUTTING Congress' pay?? They never consider that, it seems ... but they DO consider giving themselves a raise 😡
Notice how Rand Paul never considers the other way to help Social Security - raise the Taxable Earnings limit. Why should people who make a large salary suddenly get a 6.2% increase in Take Home Pay on wages over $168,600. Every middle income and lower folks have to pay SS tax on all their earnings - why not the wealthy?
This is exactly my thought. There should not be a cap on earnings for social security or raising the social security age. Everybody pays their fair of what they are making. If I can pay 25-30% making under $60,000 when working, so can the wealthy.
If all the fraud was caught, it could resolve the entitlements deficits tomorrow.
I want the report on all senators off shore bank accounts🌽🥔🥃maltodextrine.
Proverbs 20:1
Nope, they'll find something else to waste tax 💰 on & want to cut or raise the age even more, if we let them, they'll have US 🇺🇸 work into our 80s
Catch the thieves and recover our money?
Exactly ❤
I’d like to know if the Biden administration got any money back from the 85 billion dollars worth of military weapons left behind in the Afghanistan handover??
That's part of the problem. They know it's happening even today but do nothing to stop it!
Medicare needs to be audited. Too many unnecessary procedures to line the pockets of the medical establishment.
and too many people on Medicare that don’t qualify
Audit Medicaid too
Medicare part A B and D is unfunded by 42.1 Trillion
Always the faceless pfps calling for cutting American people's medicare and SS. Lmaoo russian bots.
You want to find more money? Look to your corrupt politicians. Gave themselves a nice pay raise today.
Hospitals and clinics overcharging medicare. 3000.00 for a CT scan.
Funny, Sen Paul never wants to talk about how credit is created. He’d rather ramble on about the increasing debt to people who don’t have enough intelligence to ask the right questions
I love what Sen Paul does for our country. However, at 60 y.o. i don't know that i can actually work until I'm 70. 😮💨
SS is not something for nothing. We pay into that. There are other "something for nothing" benefits like giving away money to people who are in the country illegally, paying off student loans with taxpayer money and so on that should be cut. Not Social Security!
SS is unfunded by 27.4 Trillion
Social Security is a TAX, it is NOT an investment plan. Tax payers pay a TAX into Social Security, and as Sen. Paul reports SS tax receipts are less than benefits paid out. Social Security is NOT an investment plan.
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No, it's not an investment.
It's like a Ponzi scheme.
It's only unfunded by 27.4 Trillion according to the US debt clock.
@@michaelb6529 You obviously weren't alive for the decades that Social Security was sold to the public as A RETIREMENT INVESTMENT PLAN NOT A TAX. Social Security deductions were only declared to be a "tax" under Obama. The government changes the terms as it suits them but you sure never see their retirement benefits getting reduced or their pay getting reduced.
Even more insulting is that most of those 'non-Americans' are being given our SS money that we paid into, plus they get even MORE than those on SS who paid in. Take those off and let Tom do his thing. That will help.
Expose the pork. Name names.
Is the 200billion for Sudan for bio labs or military bases?? We need to downsize every branch of our Govmt
@@randyosborne3971 did you not watch the video? Pork is a tiny problem, the problem is SS and Medicare
Well if you’ve been paying attention, the pentagon was just approved for a budget of almost a trillion dollars. Names are being named but no one seems to be paying attention. That amount is ludicrous when you factor in the fact the DOD has never been able to pass a financial audit.
You could convince the public to ditch the pork. SS and Medicare are a way tougher battle
Democrats and rInos. It’s pretty much all of them save a few
Closed government is good. It means they not spending.
Not true.
Wrong on so many levels.
@@Tradhunter did you not watch the video?
I have worked and paid in to SS for 40 years not by choice . You politicians call it an entitlement that can be changed or altered yet I have had no choice but to pay for 40 year’s
Right ✅️ they demand our money and then tax our own money for their gain!!!! We must change this fraudulent actions!!!
how about their raises are based on us voting whether they deserve one or not, not just when they feel like voting it for themselves ... that's total bs ... you don't get a raise unless your boss (us in this case) does a review and gives you performance improvement criteria if your slacking ... and these jerks have been slacking and "politicking" for ages ... they need to go and the law changed
How about a raise only when they become fiscally responsible
Just remember: Robots do not pay taxes nor do kiosk or automated factories.
And robots don't buy anything.
Neither do people that don't have jobs.
It's not free. Paid into it every pay day for years.
Not NEAR what you draw out.
It's actually a tax and may get back 50 cents on the dollar...maybe
@@cr-rb4kj yeah a lot of people haven't done the math. Someone who lives over age 80 is taking way more out than they ever put in to SS.
You should only be allowed to get back exactly the amount you put into it, not draw it FOREVER.
I agree with Rand Paul on alot but i don't agree with raising the social security age...cut all the wasteful in all the other areas
Hey, Sen. Paul. Here's an idea. Why not put an extra 1% tax for every $250,000 a person makes per year. Use that to fund SS. I am guessing you would never consider tax increases for the wealthy? I live in Kentucky just like you! I don't know one farmer who is driving a fancy sports car. Also I agree with you about military spending. Why doesn't Congress address this? Not Elon Musk. We did not elect him. Also, you seem so focused on the debt. However, Trump increased the debt by 8 trillion during his last term. And he wants to get rid of the debt ceiling. I am guessing again, you are ok with Trump doing away with the debt ceiling? Just know, we are listening to you. And we are not stupid.
I’ll never forget watching my drill sergeants try to calm down a private who was bawling his eyes out trying to package away food that was going to be thrown out after chow time after our first range exercise. He was completely inconsolable because of all the food he saw being thrown away while his brothers and sisters at home were starving every night.
The problem is the people in that room do not understand how to run a business. They just want to give free stuff and get reelected.
If you want to change the system, change the incentive for the politicians !
Require performance to stay in office !
If we don’t balance the budget, they are not eligible for reelection.
Some and or a lot of budgets are off. Budgets in business meet requirements. The required projection for a business is to increase and or to prosper. Here should be no poor people! That budget seems to be swinging for business's continuing on like they're blind, hearing impaired, and disabled while acting for the poor they're most important as to why they're in business for and then they're saying the working class. God bless us.
This is BS. No one should be working at 70.
You are correct....and one solution that is never talked about is eliminating the tax limit on social security
Then save ur money and retire off ur 401k. If you get to 70 and ur only income is social security thats on you
@apt7prod what about in 2008 when the stock market crashed and millions of people lost all their savings in their 401k right when they were about to retire?? Is that on them too?? Not everything is black and white
@@richardrobertsii4401the market has more than rebounded since then
In Australia you cannot access government ‘Age Pension’ payments until you are 67. There are other government ‘payments’ available for disability etc. So if you are a normal healthy Australian you work til at least age 67. In this day and age you can easily work to age 70. Why wouldn’t you want to? I’m 77 now, and worked to age 72, only stopping because my employer changed my role. I was a very happy and willing worker.
Raising the retirement age will just raise disability claims. That's not the answer.
Average SS= $1700? Average SSDI= $1050? They know what they are doing. They want 70 year olds going up the scaffolds in construction...if they die on the job they don't get to collect.
Weird that someone as educated and well prepared in explaining the issues as Rand Paul didn’t think about that. Where did you get your data?
Federal SS Full Retirement Age requirements and payment schedules based on progressive Birth Years already exist.
67 years is the Full Retirement Age for a person born in 1960.
Federal Disability payments are 30% less than the designated SS schedule, so it's a cheaper cost.
All Federal Disability payments are cancelled once the birth date meets SS Full Retirement Age schedule.
Disability can't be claimed when the person hits SS Full Retirement Age.
Eliminate SS disability outright. As for SS in general, make it so you only get what you put in and then the money spigot is turned off. Gradually phase out the program one way or another. Raising the retirement age is actually the most mild approach they could take hence why that's what you always hear from conservatives. The US government does some of the worst socialism the world has ever seen, it needs to just stop.
Spenfing is only part of the problem. The wealthy / very wealthy must pay more! About 45 years ago three trends began, increasing Inequality, decreasing wages, deficit spending. These were choices of tax policy. We can choose to reverse these trends too. For example, the shortfall in social security savings is mostly explained by how the rich receive their income. Which they take in ways that avoid the traditional social security tax. Their missing contribution is the missing portion of the funds money. The US economy has become much much more productive over the last 45 years, obviously. Ask yourself why regular people are not feeling more prosperous. It is because the wealth generated has been transferred by tax policy to one class of people.
dont forget congress wants a pay raise even with this debt
I agree with some of Rand's views but to call social security an entitlement is an insult to those of us who have worked our entire adult lives paying into it. Ive seen numbers that suggest that the payments would be almost triple what they are now if government wouldn't have put it into the general fund. THAT is fraud. If any private company had done that, they would be in jail.
by definition its an entitlement... are you entitled to it?
They’re giving the new immigrants all the same Social security benefits we get n many of them get more😡it’s just mind blowing what they’re doing n getting away with it
no American is going to agree to SS cuts until you pay back money you stole out of SS fund, Chip Roy said yesterday that they where again going to take money out of SS
Yes.
Yes.
How can law enforcement put anybody in jail for embezzling money when the government does the exact same thing.
Kings, emperors, dictators do it all the time. Sadly the US government is not much different these days from any other tyrannical government.
Raise social security age ? I could barely work in my 50s!!
Raise the Dam Cap !!! Not age!
Dont forget the funding of The Taliban
💯💯💯 EXACTLY!!!! They send terrorists over $40 Million a WEEK and pay pensions to the families of their dead Soliders we killed while they tried to kill us! UNACCEPTABLE
And Blinkin sending 200,000 billion to Sudan 😳this week
Yeah ain't that a crap.
The billion Obiden just gave to Angola!
@dancinginabundance Billion to Ukraine. Billion to Ecuador.
Farmers are NOT doing Well! WTF! Congress should get a pay cut!
The farmers I know are doing well.
Here in Tennessee I know farmers who get government funds to plant then get other subsidies a few months later to destroy those same crops. Farmers either do this program, or do the math and take the "don't plant anything" subsidy and get paid to leave field barren - all while food costs are going through the roof.
@@jondspen lmao
I am doing ok as long as I keep farming. Only retirement I could get is if I sold the farm. So I guess I will farm until I drop.
those cost-of-living adjustments haven't been right either
Cost of living on SS should be the highest inflation during the year .
I'm a Democrat who agrees with Rand Paul with a few exceptions.
- We all paid for our social security. I don't believe I'm getting any more than I put in (except cost of living raises). When I got my benefits statement, it showed what I put in each year and what my monthly check would be when I retire. It didn't give me extra ENTITLEMENTS for being a nice guy, good American, hard worker or caring for an aging parent.
- It's what Rand Paul didn't say. that concerns me. Why is Congress giving themselves raises while griping about social security raises? Are there a lot of Senators about to go on the bread line? Rand, I realize that nixing the raises won't balance the budget, but at least, put some skin in the game.
--Why did President Trump give large tax breaks to corporate America (as well as planning to do it again in 2025). Are there CEO's out there in danger of becoming homeless? This is why Americans are distrustful of their politicians (of both parties).
-Why isn't tax fraud in corporate America being investigated aggressively? In 2015, candidate Trump bragged about gaming the tax system. His logic was if taking a deduction was clearly unethical, but not illegal, that made him a smart businessman. He said in the same breath he was the only one who could drain the swamp.
-Why are so many Congressmen afraid of confronting Trump when they disagree with him on a policy they know is wrong for America? If he (or Musk) primaries a Senator or Congressman and they lose their jobs, will they need to apply for public assistance?
Grow up and
LEAD BY EXAMPLE!!!
Politician - "other politicians are the problem." Well, you're mostly right.
I guess a rich person wouldn't understand the consequences of working in a job where you use your hands til you are 70...
I mean atleast he is coming up with ideas and putting them forth. I can respect atleast trying to come up with something. I mean i think he makes it pretty clear that without cutting social security or medicare in some signifcant way you're not going to be able to ever balance the budget and are doomed for bankruptcy. 2/3 of the spending budget of trillion is 4 trillion and is for entitlements to american people and consider that 1/3 of the spending bill basically is applied to the deficit, meaning we could cut out everything else but social security, medicare and we would be very close on balancing the bunch, but that would be no military funding at all, or any aid to any where, to fund any governement function would be a direct cut to social security or medicare, so lets hear your idea about what specifically should get cut in those bills because they take up 100% of all the money we make as a country, leading no room at all for children cancer research even, since it was a topic of discussion in this event on capitol hill. I mean something gotta go, tell me what is it?
That's true.😢
and your back and your legs and your feet.!!!!!!!!!!!! 12 hour shifts.!!!!!!!!!
stop sending our money to other countries
Do not raise the maximum age of retirement! Find our money that was stolen when the ss account was moved to the general fund. Move the retirement age for congress to 100 years old? Rand Paul, your math doesn’t take into account that your forcing people who may be struggling to stay in the workforce to long. Easy for you to say to us that we have to work longer and we still may not get anything.
It was always in the general fund dummy, social security never made sense you can’t takeout more than you put in paid by the people paying in now that’s by definition a Ponzi scheme
I’m so disappointed that the Republicans are actually talking about cutting entitlements first
I’m a huge Trump supporter by the way
I cannot believe with all the leverage leave one they’re gonna actually discuss cutting that before every other foreign a dollar is cut
My husband got his SS statement and he will not get his full SS benefits until he reaches 70.
I’m angry too. That said, that money is long gone such that it isn’t about “finding it”.
@ that’s terrible. I lost half my projected benefits after they raised the max retirement age to 70. I’d already paid over 30 years into social security when I got that shot to my chest.
Only problem with the social security idea is who hires a 67 or older? What can they really do besides politics?
What a difference his father would have made for our country had given the chance
I am paying into the social security for the last 40 years. If government keeps taking out loans to pay for other things, instead of leaving the fund to let it grow. Why aren’t rich people and corporations pay taxes as everyone else.
They have rich lawyers that know numerous loopholes
It stays in the fund and grows with interest
Rich people and corporations do pay taxes and they provide jobs so workers are paying taxes as well.
@@dancinginabundance heh the rich pay more in taxes than the bottom 49% combined. But a lot of people are completely ignorant.
Loopholes, m'dear. Loopholes, credits, and alternate investments. Did you know that most of the average wealthy ($10M+) person's actual assets aren't spendable, they're instead leveraged to increase what's seen as wealth. Imagine rolling half your 401 every year into a trading account that nets +20% and then maxing out your 401 contribution for the year, with any excess going into other tax-deferred shelters, the whole back end of which is done by an LLC you're a board member of and have expenses paid directly by that LLC with very little actual income to tax.
Put the money back in the fund that has been robbed from it over the years
Still waiting for the people to be represented...
There is a reason you can’t get flood insurance in the private sector in coastal areas: the risk is simply too high. The government has no business subsidizing flood insurance. It needs to be grandfathered out, and no new policies should be written. If you can’t afford to live on the coast, move inland.
Term limits. Get rid of these lifetime politicians who are stuck in their ways.
Why should we accept you moving up the age limit on SSI just because YOU ALL in Washington spent too much money over the years and put us in this situation! 🤔
Rand isn’t the one voting for the pork spending he is the one trying to expose it.
Social Security is a trust fund paid into by the recipients. Stop referring to as an unearned entitlement. Same shit every year. Leave SS the f alone.
The problem is that it has always been a ponzi scheme. I have paid into it just like everyone else, but I have no expectation of it being there for me in the future because being trillions in debt and adding to it like drunken sailors will not end will. It cannot. It will not.
If left alone and if you are on it now, you may be lucky that there won't be any cuts. If you are going on it in the next 10-15 years you will have a 20-25% cut. Without any changes either increase in revenue or decrease in benefits by 2032 it will be broke! Will someone be an adult and pick your poison to save social security!
Judge a nation by how it treats it’s children and elderly
They don't refer to it as an unearned entitlement.
They refer to it as an unfunded liability.
Unfunded by 27.4 Trillion.
@@ozzie3963 Judge a nation that is 36 TRILLION dollars in debt by how it continues to spend money. Sigh...
How is giving someone what you took from them giving to them
But that's the demon-cratic way...
exactl will not cost a cent more to eliminate the wep gpo garbage it is already paid and if we did not have a small govt pension we woud get our full ssi and it would not cost a cent more , my opers pension is paid seperately by the state retirement not the govt in the first place they have been stealing from us citizens for years with this bowl sht
I was running a small business during that time. I had 9 dudes working with me. I had 90 customers. Due to that covy sh*t show and all the crazy that surrounded it. I closed my doors let go the 9 guys I had working with me. I did apply for that relief I was denied.
What about the people you throw in jail without a victim to cross examine? REALLY $500,000.00 A INMATE IN NEWYORK PER YEAR. They work them for $2 a day. While Fortune 500 companies walk free able to sell commisary at overprised costs (ten cent ramen for two dollars). Arrest them for waisting our money its a crime.
Let’s cut social security as they vote for a 40% for themselves
It's NOT 40%, it's "only" 3.8%, but it's still not right. People on Soc. Sec. only got a 2.5% COLA increase. Civil servants NOW get Soc. Sec. benefits ALONG with their damn pensions when they retire. MORE BS.
Stop lying. It was NOT 40%. It was 3.9% and it was removed from the bill. Either way, these jackoffs don't deserve a dime more, but we don't need to lie and say it was 40%.
It's not 40% it's 3
it was actually around 50K a yr... like they actually need it... making $200k a year and up.
@@shelbys6919it’s actually 3.8% unless it was changed!
Which round’s off to be 40%🙄🤢
What does he mean "entitlements"? Social Security is not entitlement. People paid for it in their whole life! Instead of talking nonsense, make FICA (federal insurance contribution act) tax for everyone, including yourselves! You are going to cut taxes for wealthyanyway. So 12% of FICA tax is not going to hurt wealthy. Are you going to do it? Of course, NO!
"Entitlement" is simply a technical term for guaranteed, meaning the government is legally required to meet their obligation to pay it. Has nothing to do with "give aways", yes we all paid into it, and the government by law is required to pay it back when we retire.
So you don't know about Social Security Disability then. Look into it. People get onto it and leech for their entire lives. Also people who live too long end up taking way more from SS than they paid in. SS costs the US government over $1.4 trillion per year. Either SS gets cut or the US dollar dies. Same with all the Medicare etc. These entitlements (yes that's what they are) cost too much. It's that simple. You want to keep the gravy train rolling? Well then we're gonna have to raise those taxes...a lot. On everybody not just the rich.
Entitlement to me means the recipients are entitled to the money. It is not charity. Its is not investment in infustructure or industry. It is something they are due. It is a right.
If you can subsidize wars in other countries, you can subsidize Social Security!!
Loans backed by untaxed assets should be considered income!
And, banks should have to turn over guarentees to the IRS - and the value of the assets guarenteeing these loans should be taxed annually while they are being used as collateral!
12:28 maybe if they cut a few billion dollars from SpaceX contract, then we could pay for Social Security and not have to raise the age
Robbing us blind 🤨🧐😑
No one wants to work till 65 let alone 70 get real
Yeah, and rising the age is their way of fixing it so most will die before they get to or draw for a couple years and then pass on and the government keeps all of it. When we paid into it all are life and still paying. How about this people 40 and under don't get to collect it but also don't have to pay more into it and phase it out over time. which would take about 30 years. Because the government has dipped into it spending it for other reasons causing it to go broke that's what this is. If they didn't there would be a surplus. And another thing they don't get. They spend billions for places like the Ukraine and take our retirement to pay for it. Yeah, it's time these losers do not get a check or get out of government.
You don't work, you don't eat.
Amen brother, From canada. I'd rather be put into the work force at 13-14-15 years of age and retire at 50... I'd much rather have a school system that identifies my strong suits and applies me accordingly into the work force through accompanied training. "Hey this kid really likes big trucks, lets put him on a path that pushes big trucks, driving, and transportation ( making good money ) Or hey, this kid really enjoys the concept of building, lets put him into a field that requires construction or engineering.
@@Mr.Maret5 you know how to hunt and gather that no that’s not true
@@Mr.Maret5 people are barely living that long anymore due to the disgusting food and health care- nobody is working until they’re 70, most ppl already have serious health issues by 70..i dont know what world Mr Rand lives in, but it’s not the real world.
I really have an issue with sendings billions to other countries with no complicated thinking but giving that same money to Americans requires a full speech from a Senator who doesnt mention my point. Shut up Rand.
Go ahead and add up every single billion sent to every nation combined. Then compare it to SS and Medicare costs. SS and Medicare absolutely dwarf foreign aid. You could fund 10 Ukraines and 10 Israels for what those entitlements cost. $1.6 and $1.4 trillion respectively. Defense is $820 billion. Ukraine and Israel combined are less than $200 billion. Rand is just telling the truth and you don't want to hear it. Don't get me wrong I want to end foreign aid especially to Ukraine. But when you look at the US debt problem the real culprits are SS and Medicare.
@@Ziegfried82No matter how you slice it? The government is spending THE PEOPLES MONEY, while filling THEIR OWN POCKETS.
All of it is corrupt, evil greed.
Entitlements are called entitlements for a reason, so that older people can have a quality of life--they paid into this program! Cut the military budget and work for peace in this country.
Audit every agency. Eliminate kick backs. Stop over runs, fraud waste and abuse. Stop lobbies, cap contracts. Stop throwing money at every issue.
You've been creeping the age of when you can begin benefits. Why is this bad? People who are heavily dependent on Social Security for their retirement have poor health care and physically hard jobs. The longer you have to do this work the more broken you are. Once again it is the poor that suffer. Do a responsible job in cleaning up fraud! 99% of people who are receiving Social Security need that money.
Rand....raising the age? really? Im sure theres other places the government could stop spending on things less important than the thing our populace pays into and in so many cases need. Maybe less billions outside the country, too?
I agree with you, however Rand knows the government will not stop spending or giving our money away. I’m sure he doesn’t want to raise the retirement age but it seems like to keep it funded it’s the only thing to do.
Raising the retirement age is the kindest way to do it. I would not do it so nicely.
Hey Rand, as a U.S. Senator, have you EVER paid anything to Social Security? Oh, I looked it up: You didn't start paying social security taxes until it was changed in 1984. Now, U.S. Senators pay into social security, but they ALSO have a separate retirement benefit added to their normal high salary. Many of us American pay double social security, as we are self-employed. Don't complain about social security benefits, when you get TWO retirement packages as a U.S. Senator !
He didn't even become a politician until 2010, before that, a Doctor.
He is just another scumbag politician sponsored by a Koch think tank. Bribery. He will likely get an executive position with an enormous salary at a Koch business and never have to show up to work once. That's the way they do it in America. Freedom!
@@malachi- lol yep. Some folks just have no idea who Rand Paul is.
@@Ziegfried82 Yes, the crazy thing there is, most coming up these days never even heard of his father.
Ron Paul, that re-educated me, long ago.
Whoa, at 4:13 , we are not giving SS money, they operate out of a trust fund that is funded by payroll deductions. On the contrary SS trust lends money and collects interest. But I agree with the narrative that spending has to be reigned in. How about putting congress on the the same work benefits as the rest of the nation. That is just the beginning
Come on Rand Paul, you know the welfare system money is hid in the farm bill. 85% of the farm bill money goes to welfare. 14:23
OH THE PENTAGON WILL GET AUDITED..those powers just lost their clout! And we the people want numbers and answers!!
Rand Paul has been on point for years. I've always liked him.
Where are the spaceships!
Says who?
Keep dreaming
And they’ll fail as usual, and they’ll still spend more money than anyone else afterwards.
Isn't this rich. He wants to screw with our money and he wants a raise too.
I have read many of the comments about SS and agree that 70 is getting too old for retirement unless you have a good job that you like and are physically able. I retired early for physical reasons. My job was somewhat physical and I could see that I was no spring chicken.
However, I live comfortably on less than what, (guessing), 90% of Americans would consider a living wage, along with giving approx. 28% of my gross income to charity.. I own property and my house and live in Salem, OR, ( more expensive than many places in the states).. I admit that I am and always have been very conservative with money matters. I also, have to admit that giving to charity, when I can see the great results, is one of my joys in life.
I like the idea from many of the comments about young people wanting to opt out of SS and handle their own retirement. Yes, get rid of SS completely. I have not researched it, but it looks like I will get more out of SS than what I put in in the 40 plus years that I worked. Unless I die pretty soon. .
Bless the Hearts of the voters that keep installing Senator Paul.
We should see how much all these politicians make every year… then cut their pay do the elderly do not have to work until they die!! 🙄
They just voted themselves a 40 percent raise! They should have to live on what we get.
I believe the majority of ppls have had more than enough of this double standards bs and barely scraping by while politicians live luxurious lifestyles n retire with awesome benefits! Makes me sick
As much as I like Rand Paul, he's completely wrong on FURTHER raising the age of retirement. It's easy for politicians to talk about cutting Social Security or raising the age of eligibility when they all have a golden parachute retirement plan with health plans that give them the ability to survive into their 80's and even 90's while Social Security/Medicare recipients have to try to survive with garbage "health care". The real way to fix Social Security is to raise the FICA tax. Period. The younger workers will not like the idea but in reality the amount of increase in their FICA deduction will be minuscule.... less than a cup of Starbucks coffee per check. Also remove the cap on income... completely. No matter how much a person earns they should pay the same percentage as minimum wage workers. Yes, eliminate waste and fraud in Social Security but do not increase the retirement age. The American Dream ends with a retirement that a person can actually enjoy... not dying before they can retire or collect SS or being so frail or sick that life beyond that point is meaningless... sitting in a chair or lying in a bed is not "retirement". My recent retirement was at 66 years and 8 months... almost 67. How much time do I have left? Not a lot. How is that fair? Working until you die or working until you're an invalid is no incentive to work in the first place. "Golden Years" no that rarely happens... unless you're a Politician or Bureaucrat. Why do Congress and President/Vice President get raises nearly every year? Pay for all politicians should be reduced immediately by 50% and all politicians should be retirering with only the same benefits that Social Security recipients get... MEDICARE not a Cadillac health care plan.
Nurses', plumbers', construction workers', etc, backs and knees are ruined from the work stress well before age 70. Politicians, who use their mouth (blah, blah) much more than their back, are clueless about body damage from hard physical work.
There's too much to unpack in your long message without writing an equally long one. Do some research on several of your points. I'm not suggesting congress should get a raise, but actually look up the last time they got one.
@@woods-garage Are you a bot?
I think what Rand Paul is trying to say is that he doesn't want to increase the age requirement on social security, but we're literally spending 2 trillion dollars more than we have every year and every time you say something about social security or medicare you get major negative public feed back from people who don't understand that some really tough budget decisions are going to need to be made thats going to be justifiably attacked, I mean something like Children's cancer research, while i certainly don't want to defund cancer research for children, i think realize we're losing over 2 trillion every year that maybe we need to look at cut backs on all programs universally, including alot of our presence in the middle east, but I'm worried about israel we should not abandon israel, alot of these other places we should think about ending some aid, ending proxy wars, yeah It can't survive without cutting something on social security and medicare, so do you go into bankruptcy or what do you look at cutting, whats the things that can be cut, what kind of benefits if removed negatively impacted americans the least. its a hard conversation to have and basically suicide for a reelection cuz no one ever thinks that social security, or medicare be cut in any way, in fact it should be added to. I think balancing the budget is a step to creating a system that support social security growth, but currently we don't have the capabilities.
100% agree.
They will keep doing this. Shut it down and fix it
Trump has to put a fix in place before shutting down the gov't. Elon and Vivek are working to cut spending and waste. Dems are crapping their pants over it too.
Rand does wonderful work swrving, "We The People"! Thank you, Sir and your honorable Father for your commitment to serving us! 💜
Every organization and agency needs to be audited. Period.
1. You force us to pay into social security
2. You only give us a percentage of what we paid into it.
3. You call it an entitlement, and then you threaten to take away!
It’s my money, I earned it and it’s not an entitlement!
How about Congress pass a law starting say like for 2025 that anyone that is 18 and older doesn’t have to pay into social security anymore. Let’s phase it out altogether. I’m sure we would be better off if we kept that money and invested it ourselves.
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@@rhondajohnson9971
We probably would have been better off to put the money under our mattress instead of letting the government take care of it.
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They don't call them entitlements anymore. They are listed on the debt clock as unfunded liabilities.
Should have implemented the Bush plan to privatize SS.
Stop social security, Right! And then, when all those young persons today are older and saving nothing, just like right now the older persons had done, our magnanimous government is going to give money to those same people that never worried about saving anything! There is a problem on both sides; that magnanimous government illegally gives the money that our same government confiscated during most of the taxpayers working years to people that never paid into that. Have you heard of California giving illegals social security? You might say is not true, but check it out. And I bet that California is not the only state. That's where the abuse is. Even our own citizens, just because they are older, and in need, receive social security but never paid into it. Our so called goverment dispenses of the taxpayers hard earned money like there is no tomorrow. What is the solution? I say help all the veterans and the elderly in need, and the rest send them to work. I don't care if they are single moms, or single dads, or whatever; if they didn't pay into it, they should receive ZERO money!
Fraud and mismanagement of funds should be an oversight bookkeeping process in all departments. Not taking away funds that have been properly allocated….That’s what we the people want. Wasteful spending and mismanagement of taxpayers money should have oversight committees