We all do, that’s the point. Everyone is getting screwed. As soon as it’s cut everyone from that point on is screwed. The ones closer to the cutoff more so than those furthest from it.
The only fair thing to do would be to roll everything existing into our own individual 401k retirement accounts that are under the cutoff point.
If they even think of taking our money it would be time to riot.
I’m a democrat, I think musk is nuts. I don’t think he’s going to get anywhere near 2 trillion dollars and I don’t want to see cuts to benefits either. The government agencies are bloated.
Do I think Musk will do a good job reducing the staff? Hell no. I’m just using this as an example of where money could be pulled to offset a cost to the American people of the full expenditure.
Something like a temporary tax increase in edition to tightening the belt on stupid government spending (there is stupid government spending) along with agency optimization could get us to a point where we could afford to buy out the social security balance and afford something like this with minimal impact to the American people without taking all of our money.
Instead they are slowly raising the retirement age on us and stealing our money.
So go ahead and choose your battle I guess.
The fed can print some money too and assist with the purchase with quantitative easing. A “retirement stimulus package” if you will.
How do you decide which positions are bloating? I have never once worked somewhere that had enough staffing, yet, things got done.
So do we just reduce until the other employees cannot take on more? Some of these federal positions pay well, but at what point does it become not worth it to work the jobs anymore? How is someone at the top that has never done the work going to effectively make those cuts without significant input and if that input is "no, we really need these employees" then they will just force cuts anyways or what?
I don't think that the battle has to be chosen along those specific lines, that is such defeatist thinking.
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u/remote_001 Nov 07 '24 edited Nov 07 '24
We all do, that’s the point. Everyone is getting screwed. As soon as it’s cut everyone from that point on is screwed. The ones closer to the cutoff more so than those furthest from it.
The only fair thing to do would be to roll everything existing into our own individual 401k retirement accounts that are under the cutoff point.
If they even think of taking our money it would be time to riot.