Well, Social Security and Medicare are part of the picture. COVID didn't kill us geezers off, so that was not the solution and if anyone was suspicious of the jabs, it was boomers.
But Social Security and Medicare are only part of the so-called entitlement picture. Folks paid into those and should get something back.
There is another big chunk of the budget that goes to welfare, all sorts of food programs, and to medicaid, subsidized housing, etc. An awful lot of those recipients haven't paid in.
And then there are the unaccountable fortunes being spent on Millions of illegal aliens just during this administration.
I think there's a lot of fat to trim before people come after granny's Social Security check.
Nobody paid anything "into" the social security welfare entitlements. People paid a disguised redistributive income tax, which they were lulled into accepting by being fed the lie that it was some sort of "insurance" against old age and disability.
Where's the insurance contract? The enforceable agreement between you and the insurance provider that includes enforceable provisions you can sue upon to get paid a certain amount once you reach a certain age? Or become disabled?
No enforceable insurance or annuity contract means you didn't "pay into" diddly-squat. It means you were paying a regressive income tax on wages, which you willingly accepted because you swallowed the lies the democrats fed you that it was some sort of insurance program, which it most definitely is not.
That being said, I will fight right along with the rest to make sure that current retirees do not have the carpet yanked out from underneath them if they built their retirements upon the belief they would continue receiving social security welfare benefits, provided that they actually have a colorable need for the money - that means that the wealthy, like Bill Gates, do not get social security, period, no matter how much they paid into it, for the simple reason that they do not need the benefits to maintain their welfare.
VA benefits, quite honestly, should be put onto an enforceable contractual basis, because those are received in exchange for putting your a$$ and your life on the line for the country, and are earned in blood and sweat.
But please. can we drop the stupid nonsense about social security being some sort of enforceable annuity or insurance plan that we paid for? That just continues the democrats' lies about social entitlement programs.