Potential cuts to Social Security could impact your retirement — what you can do about it.

I’m sure you’ll be fine and it’ll be even better when the system is rewritten in a month, you won’t be lost or declared dead.

Just sit back and enjoy what you voted for.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
    48·
    2 days ago

    Delays could be disastrous for many Americans. In one study, 42% of Americans aged 65-plus said they wouldn’t be able to afford basic necessities like food without their monthly check.

    There are approximately 60 million Americans aged 65 and over.

    42% of that is about 25 million people.

    … And thats not counting those on Disability, SSDI, like myself.

    Thats another roughly 11 million people, under 65, disabled and unable to work due to serious, debilitating injuries or medical conditions.

    If these idiots actually do this, and fuck it up as much as they are likely to, we’re looking at something approximating 5% to 10% of the country becoming homeless within months … and then likely starve to death or die of exposure, we’re talking about the eldery and disabled here.

    … This would effectively be somewhere between, or comparable to, the varying estimates of avoidable deaths of Holodomor or the famine during the Great Leap Forward.

      • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
        20·
        2 days ago

        Those seniors can enjoy wandering the streets knowing that the wrong people are also being hurt with them. I hope they’re happy.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, my parents are hardcore preppers, for all the wrong reasons. For the longest time, it was the “Biden is going to roll tanks down the streets” type of prepping. But now I’m seeing the prepping in a new light, because it could 100% turn into a full blown “nobody can afford soup, and the government is actively dismantling the soup kitchens while forcing people onto the streets” economy.