This is funny because Bernie is admitting SS is a Ponzi scheme but wouldn’t be if they significantly changed it!
▪️Remember, SS was sold to the American people as sort of an insurance policy, not welfare. Supposedly, you paid in during your working years and then got what you paid back in retirement. That’s why there is a cap on annual SS taxes, it’s not supposed to be an entitlement or welfare, but merit-based where people don’t freeload off others.
▪️What happened in reality is many ended up receiving much more in SS benefits than they contributed and the program was/is unsustainable without a bunch of new workers entering in (aka a Ponzi scheme). So now, Bernie is saying the original SS program is a fraud so just make it into another welfare program funded by the rich.
It’s just so wild to see these movements see saw, it feels like just yesterday that conservatives were boycotting Disney and the left was gloating.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
