The boomers are truly the most selfish generation that exists, I tried explaining to a boomer the other day that if they shut down social security and did a buyout (paid you back what you paid in) they would make more money than they will ever receive from SS. They immediately became defensive and said “they paid into it for years so they deserve it”. Second round of buyout explanation ensues. The next sentence was “well I’d have millions if I’d invested it myself”. Cool story, we can’t undo you being dumb and voting democrat your entire life, but you can unfuck the social security clusterfuck for every other generation. “But I need it now”. Then third round of trying to explain the buyout. “But I could have more money if it was fixed when I was younger”. You should have voted for it. Then they shut down the conversation. They truly are the TV generation where their entire thought process came scripted and curated, they can’t even comprehend ending a horrible policy because they were told it would give them more money. Same with the infinity immigration they pushed because more money. Same with the intentional housing scarcity. On and on. There’s not one single brain cell that doesn’t operate on “well I’m going to get mine” even to their own detriment.
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is the money even there to buy out social security recipients? The population of old people in the United States is roughly 60 million plus. let's make a generous estimate and say all those people paid an average grand total of $20,000 into social security over their entire lifetime.
that alone is $1,200,000,000,000, or 1.2 trillion dollars, and that doesn't include the population under 60.
1.2 trillion is a drop in the bucket considering we spent 1.35 trillion in 2023 on SS alone. Frankly we could spend 6 trillion and come out positive in 5 years.