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bucolic_frolic

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1. Doesn't sound like great shape. 89% and 81%

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2025, 10:58 AM

Jun 20

Those sound like 11-19% shortfalls to me. How would they make up that kind of cash? Maybe global warming or another pandemic will shrink the beneficiary pool? RFKJr will be their doctor?

You can't keep giving $3-5 Trillion to billionaires and remain solvent. They are hollowing it out.

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Social Security is still in good shape but faces challenges -- from Trump [View all] Zorro Jun 20 OP

Doesn't sound like great shape. 89% and 81% bucolic_frolic Jun 20 #1

Wrong. It's not "going broke." That is a LIE. valleyrogue Jun 20 #2

general fund is running deficits of hundreds of billions of dollars a year. bucolic_frolic Jun 20 #3