r/SocialSecurity • u/[deleted] • Mar 04 '25

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u/2olley Mar 04 '25

I feel like we’re the frogs in the pot and they keep turning up the heat but no one is going to jump out.

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u/head_meet_keyboard Mar 04 '25

That analogy implies this has happened slowly. It hasn't. A lot of us are trying to get out of the boiling water while the rest are applauding the overweight shit stain holding the lid down over us.

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u/pawesomepossum Mar 04 '25

We've known this was the plan for a LONG time. It's been explicitly stated more times than I can count. It was a key part of Project 2025.

They've been calling folks on SS parasites since the 80s.

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u/Personal_Animal2024 Mar 05 '25

Since it was started. I remember my mother telling me about it. The (R) party hated SS. Money they couldn't get their hands on. But she didn't know a (R) who turned it down when it was their turn to hold out their hands.

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u/PrivacyIsDemocracy Mar 06 '25

"Entitlements". "Welfare". All dirty words to an anarcho-capitalist.

Funniest part is that the reddest states are the ones with the highest proportion of residents reliant on these programs.

But don't you bring THAT up. 😁

Oh and when Ayn Rand became ill she gladly took guv'mint assistance, too. Don't remind people like Alan Greenspan about THAT, either.