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Deuxcents

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8. This is not the time to be selling a house in Florida, but maybe I should start trying now.

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Fri Dec 6, 2024, 03:35 PM

Dec 6

I will not be able to live here anymore if they take my SS and Medicare. I live independently but my fear is I won’t be able to afford to..I keep thinking, just what will become of people like me? They have more money than they could ever spend but want to take the funds that we’ve paid into all our working years and break the promises we believed and participated in.

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TPM / Josh Marshall: Let's Call It: Trump 2.0 Is Lining Up for Massive Social Security Cuts [View all] Dennis Donovan Dec 6 OP

Kick dalton99a Dec 6 #1

Social Security is OUR money, not the government's Wicked Blue Dec 6 #2

The Social Security Act of 1935 says otherwise Kaleva Dec 6 #12

Well Rebl2 Dec 6 #14

It's never been our money Kaleva Dec 6 #15

It won't happen...they have a one vote majority in the House. Demsrule86 Dec 6 #21

Poor houses Henry203 Dec 6 #3

Houses?... lame54 Dec 6 #10

How long before we hear La Coliniere Dec 6 #16

You have to have a great deal of contempt for human beings to even consider such a thing. Passages Dec 6 #4

You can see it in their eyes. Kingofalldems Dec 6 #5

"Fraud" .... they never find much of that in these programs. viva la Dec 6 #6

DOGE is a dog and pony show largely so that someone JCMach1 Dec 6 #7

Good take roscoeroscoe Dec 6 #11

Yeah, it will 'largely' be noise to cover the very real damage JCMach1 Dec 6 #13

This is not the time to be selling a house in Florida, but maybe I should start trying now. Deuxcents Dec 6 #8

We're going to need to build coalitions for protests especially for those who Passages Dec 6 #9

Right there with ya. nt allegorical oracle Dec 6 #18

Junk Social Security at the same time they're cutting jobs (unemployment jumped up allegorical oracle Dec 6 #17

Maybe we'll have to do like in the 60's..pool our funds together and have our own little family Deuxcents Dec 6 #19

Wonder what Rebl2 Dec 6 #20