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2025-03-27 Home Front: Politix

DOGE slashes billions more in expenses for programs like Peruvian climate change and gender equity in Mexico

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11156 views ] Top

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Given, we now KNOW and have PROVEN that the Biden Admin LIED about what the Inflation Rates.

A LIE that resulted in much smaller COLA's to retirees.

Plus, DOGE has saved roughly $800 per taxpayer in just 2 months. With projections of a possible $1 Trillion savings by years end.

How about giving US Retirees a back dated check, and a corrected realistic COLA ?

Posted by NN2N1 2025-03-27 05:15|| 2025-03-27 05:15|| Front Page Top

#2 You know I adore you, NN2N1, but please wait until there actually is money to share rather than a slightly smaller gigantic hole before demanding a bigger piece of the pie. In exchange I promise never to collect my own share of Social Security — as Mr. Wife’s someday widow, I mean, because I got sick six months short of being vested in my own right, so all my donations to the fund will not be credited to me.

The Millennial generation is paying twice as much into Social Security as we did per dollar earnt, with the warning that they will never get any of it back because the fund will be bankrupt before they retire.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-27 12:25|| 2025-03-27 12:25|| Front Page Top

#3 AFAIK, there is vesting for Medicare but not for social security. SS payments are based on the average of your highest earning 35 years. Only worked 1 year? That will get averaged in with 34 years of $0 income. You may not get much but you will get something.

Posted by Difar Dave 2025-03-27 18:24|| 2025-03-27 18:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Me? I started paying into Social Security when I was sixteen, Difar Dave, as an assistant gymnastics coach at the local Jewish Community Center (the newspaper route I had from 9th grade didn’t involve government paperwork that I’m aware of), worked full time ages 19-29, then part time for two years in my mid-thirties after we returned from Europe, once trailing daughter #2 was in school full time. I had planned to do something more than wife-and-mothering once the trailing daughters were in junior high, but in my case Chronic Fatigue Syndrome doesn’t allow such luxuries. Social Security informs me every year that I need to work six months more ~~to be vested~~ to get Social Security payments in my own right, but that should I become the widow of a working man I am entitled to some monthly amount that I can’t remember.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-27 23:23|| 2025-03-27 23:23|| Front Page Top

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