Social Security and the life expectancy meme: the age of SS cutting is upon us again.

[GiqueCee]

64. Okay, let's start with the foundations...

... of conservatism: greed, malice, deceit, and the insatiable desire to hurt people. These perverted character flaws drive their every word and deed. It's long past time for clinicians to designate conservatism as a mental disorder on the sociopathy spectrum and treat it as such. Establish mandatory testing to determine one's fitness for elective office before they can file to run. The likes of Empty Greene, Paul Gosar, Rand Paul, Matt Gaetz, Bullet Boebert, Ron Johnson, and all the rest of the very long list of self-serving sociopaths who crave dominion over the lives of others, have no business abusing the powers of their respective offices, let alone fucking with Social Security.
First, Social Security is NOT an entitlement; it is deferred wages held in trust. It's YOUR money, not the government's, and not some Republican politician's to steal and dole out to Wall Street hyenas. Even with all the protections SS supposedly has, the scumbags get their filthy paws on millions from the SS trust fund, always promising to pay it back, but never quite getting around to actually doing so.
And the fact that there's a cap at all on SS withholding, let alone a cap of a measly $160,000, tells you all you need to know about the grotesque corruption of the über-wealthy's influence on policy makers. There is NO justification for ANY cap on how much money the rich have to pay into Social Security. None. We have to pay on every penny we earn. So should they.
Gee, doncha just wish you had a lobbyist to promote your interests at the expense of working people? Or maybe doncha just wish there was no such fuckin' thing as lobbyists in the first place?
Sorry. My constant state of simmering rage bubbles over sometimes and I gotta vent or explode. Plus, we've got a foot of snow on the ground already, and it's still coming down like a sumbitch. Visibility's so low ya can barely see the trees on the other side of the road. Gonna have some serious shoveling to do when this lets up, and the snowblower's gonna get a workout, too, that's for damn sure.
I'm too old for this shit.