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Social Security is a a scam. If individuals were allowed to keep their contributions and invest them in the stock market—for example, in index funds like VOO and chill then nearly every American could retire as a millionaire, making traditional 401k unnecessary.

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Okay, tell that to the 65+ demographic who were offered pensions and promises of a new deal from their parents. Stocks werent what they were back then before we surrendered our riches to billionaires. A pension was probably way safer than investing unless you already worked in the economic sector.

I'm a millenial and was raised early expecting social security to run out by the time I retire. Not the first time society pulled the ladder up on me.

It was the new deal democrats who stole riches from Americans to put in Fort Knox and foisted this scam on America. It has become a slush fund for the government with hundreds of crooks hands in the cookie jar. It needs to be dissolved, and those who will be worse off by investments will continue to get paid and those who would do better would have it privatized in a staged approach to its dissolution. Removing the parasites in DC by reducing most of the federal government and reducing military spending will help with allocating funds to assist with it's dissolution.

What a mouthful of pretty rhetoric

“Slush fund” “crooks” “cookie jar” “parasites”

But not a single meaningful point brought up or data pointed towards.

It’s a nice easy way to feel like something makes sense without thinking about it.

What are you doing just spouting rhetoric at people who, you know, don’t agree?

> reducing military spending

This needs to happen. It dwarfs non military spending.

But that’ll never happen in the US.

Yeah that's what I thought. You couldn't rebutle any of it.

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