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If my SSDI payment doesn’t show up you can bet I will raise hell. It’s going to possibly mess up my Medicaid and Medicare. And if it’s a long term issue my HUD housing.
FAFO and shit’s going to get ugly quick. Well, as quick as my disabled ass can move
That's my money, that I paid into the system for many years. Keeping it amounts to theft.
If they stop sending SS check, they will create a demographic of very angry old people with nothing to lose. Many have guns and military training. They will absolutely fight back.
They just built a new SS facility near my house. The first month that my check doesnt show up, I know that several thousand of my friends will show up there, and that office will be destroyed.
And they will use that and an excuse for martial law.
One way or another it’s going to get really bad, really soon.
They'll find their excuse one way or another. They aren't above using some variation of the False Flag Attack. If the resistance won't get violent, they'll send in goons to instigate violence, then send in armed authorities to use superior violence to quell the violence.
You might be right in spirit, and of course I agree with the general sentiment, but technically no, that's not your money anymore and it would not be theft. That's not how taxation works.
When you pay SS payroll tax, you're not putting money into a retirement account.
Perhaps, but does represent an agreement with the government that they will take a portion of your, and your employer's money each year, and when you reach the right age, they will write a check every month.
They can't unilaterally choose to stop honoring their side of the agreement based on the ignorant and illegal opinions of a Foreign Sociopathic Oligarch and the most prolific traitor in American history.
I mean, they definitely can.
I hope this doesn't happen though.
They can try, but ending Social Security could very well be the biggest predictably avoidable political blunder in American history.
And these treasonous MAGAMorons are stupid enough to try it.
They can and they will destroy it. There's nothing to stop them.
There are a number of strategies to stop them, but America isn't ready to employ them yet, but at some point we will. All my life, I hoped I would never have to say this, but it is almost certainly going to take some serious violence to stop the MAGA Nazis. Nobody alive has ever seen that in this country, so it will take a while for America to come to terms with that option.
You sure that facility is going to be staffed? They're cutting the SS admin staff to barebones and closing the offices so that people can't complain. They don't want to hear you, they don't care about you. As far as Musk and Trump are concerned, they already have your money, it's just how to funnel it into their bank account instead of yours. There's no way to stop them plundering the entire SS fund, no one in government was relying on that money for themselves anyway.