The warning is aimed at middle-aged Americans. Some members here may be such. This write-up appeared today on Yahoo. It's source is shown. What about the young kids of today? imp
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt arrived at his desk to sign the Social Security Act into law. And just before signing it, he proudly proclaimed that the law would go down in history "as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy." Needless to say, that didn’t happen. Quite the opposite, actually.
Social Security’s various trust funds currently hold about $2.7 trillion in total assets; yet the government itself estimates the program’s liabilities to exceed $40 trillion. And Social Security’s second biggest trust fund, the Disability Insurance fund, will be fully depleted in a matter of weeks.
In the 2015 report of the Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees they state very plainly:
"Social Security as a whole as well as Medicare cannot sustain projected long-run program costs…", and that the government should be "giving the public adequate time to prepare."
The Treasury Secretary is saying it. Congress is saying it. The numbers are screaming it:
Social Security is going to fail.
http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/11/social-security-broke/
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt arrived at his desk to sign the Social Security Act into law. And just before signing it, he proudly proclaimed that the law would go down in history "as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy." Needless to say, that didn’t happen. Quite the opposite, actually.
Social Security’s various trust funds currently hold about $2.7 trillion in total assets; yet the government itself estimates the program’s liabilities to exceed $40 trillion. And Social Security’s second biggest trust fund, the Disability Insurance fund, will be fully depleted in a matter of weeks.
In the 2015 report of the Social Security and Medicare Board of Trustees they state very plainly:
"Social Security as a whole as well as Medicare cannot sustain projected long-run program costs…", and that the government should be "giving the public adequate time to prepare."
The Treasury Secretary is saying it. Congress is saying it. The numbers are screaming it:
Social Security is going to fail.
http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/11/social-security-broke/
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