Social Security Expected to Dip Into Its Reserves This Year

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  1. MolonLabe2009

    MolonLabe2009 Banned

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    Just another failed government pay-as-you-go Ponzi scheme social program.

    Privatize social security and make it optional.
     
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    There is no trust fund, only government debt.
     
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    DUH! It happens EVERY year. That is what the Trust Fund ("reserves") are for.

    Another case of the right trying very hard to push austerity and collapse of society and economy.
     
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    Making it optional means some people will not choose to make that option, and we will still have social costs.
     
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    Riiiiight. Only $2.8 TRILLION left in the Trust Fund. -

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    Why do people assert confidently what they know ZERO about?
     
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    Right. It's just a scheme to kill the whole thing.
     
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    Not solving for social problems is why we have more socialism.
     
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    Over the years I have had many discussions with many idiots who don't comprehend that what you say is true. The "special securities" held by the SS Trust Fund are totally worthless. Social Security has been looted by both political parties. It would have been nice if over the years surplus funds had been invested in real securities (marketable assets) such as any real pension fund would have done.
     
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    Nah. We don't have socialism. We do have a few socially beneficial programs though. But the workers don't run any of them.
     
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    Are you claiming an IOU is an asset?
     
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    Technically, intragovernmental holdings are currently being swapped to public debt, and that's not good.
     
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    Nope. No truth to that. Zero. They represent real invested assets. Their only distinction from the usual T-bills, bonds, and notes is that they cannot be sold on the open market, but since they are "fixed assets" and not equity investments, market demand has no effect on them. They're like a savings bond you might hold. You can't sell it on the open market but it has real value.
     
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    Sure.
    "A company's IOU is counted as an asset on the balance sheet because another party owes that company money or goods. This usually happens when a business provides products or services to be paid later, such as after 30 or 90 days for short-term agreements. An IOU for outstanding receivables is a current asset if the term is one year or shorter. For IOUs longer than a year, accountants consider this a long-term asset. "

    https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/iou.asp

    See, it's much easier to pretend and believe you're smart and informed if you only talk to idiots.
     
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    What's the alternative?
     
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    That is illegal. Can you figure out why?
     
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    Unemployment compensation simply for being unemployed, should solve Labor's problem with Capitalism's, natural rate of unemployment.
     
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    A budget surplus

    ......According to SS Trustees, and Treasury Direct, when a budget is in a deficit, intragovernmental holdings are converted to public debt, thus, from non-marketable securities to marketable securities.
     
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    In this case the IOU will never be redeemed since the money is long gone. You know it, I know it, and anyone with any sense knows it.
     
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    If I was allowed to opt out of SS and take that money that is now currently confiscated out of my paycheck for SS and instead invest that money into my 401K on top of what I already invest into my 401K, then I would be able to retire a millionaire before I was 60.
     
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    A bit late to think of privatizing it now.Also just look at how many private pension plans went out of business without paying out a dime to the employees currently working in the 1980's, after the introduction of the 401K,over 100,000.We need to raise the ceiling on S.S. withholding to $500,000 and raise the rate to 7% for employee and employer.
     
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    We are over $20 trillion dollars in debt.

    I'm glad that I was able to clear that up for ya!
     
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    That would be pointless. That akready exists. Its called a savings account. The purpose of social security is to have those with money pay for those who could not or did not save up for retirement.

    In any case the money you recieve at an old ripe age is nothing so I don't understand where it is all going except for maybe people with 'disabilities'.
     
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    Apparently you don't know how little you know. Those securities have been redeemed every year recently. I'll be you don't even know HOW they are redeemed, do you? See how little you know?
     
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    How else would you expect anybody on the RW to manufacture a post count?

    Oh, and on topic, I am not too worried about the Social Security reserves.
     

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