Trump Announcement on Social Security

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Social Security should require that those, who want to collect benefits, have an income below a certain maximum....In that way those, who really need it, will get more...

.....Federal government should legalize voluntary euthanasia for everyone if the person requests it. Too many folks are living with great pain and/or impairment and suffer terribly for many years before they die a "natural" death.

I'm 89, by the way, and am still in good health but worry that some terrible impairment will hit and I will have to suffer for years before I finally die. Allowing voluntary euthanasia would drastically cut the social security benefits paid out....

Can't agree we should pay into SS and they take if I saved, like a good girl, so that I wouldn't have to live JUST on SS, Mitch. Social security is a sort of pension fund we all pay into and we should get it back, and it is SUPPOSED to be invested and untouchable. But the untouchable went out the window when they started lending money to the Treasury so the govt wouldn't have to borrow from markets, no: it borrows from Social Security funds now. The Treasury pays about 4% interest to borrow from the trust fund. Apparently $68 billion in interest last year says AI.

They need to RAISE the age people can retire at on SS and they already tax us on our SS if we go over a certain income. They should have a way people like you, Mitch can turn your money back in to SS". I felt that way when WE got those TWO covid checks, but that was to get people to spend more. We just stuck it in the bank, we were rather afraid someone had made a mistake!

I just want to work til I drop dead or do the euthenasia thing, too Mitch. Agree with you there. It would save Medicare a LOT of money; 80% of medicare and medicare funds are used in the last 5% of a person's life: for chronic, debilitating care.

Just take me out, put me to sleep. That is kind.