Don't get spun by their rhetoric, while they dismantle Social Security: Leslie Kouba

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are entitlement programs because, according to laws set by Congress, the people who pay into them are entitled to the benefits each provides.
63% : An online SS fact sheet says in 2025, a monthly average of 69 million people will receive Social Security benefits totaling about $1.6 trillion for the year.
63% : Those interested in reading the complex 90-year history of Social Security, can find it here.
60% : The source of the statistics is a bit awkward, but the point is - a LOT of people REALLY depend on Social Security benefits as well as Medicare and Medicaid payments - which mainly go to healthcare providers.
56% : The best way to control people is to squish their trust in journalism, federal institutions and government - not the current government of course - the previous government.
51% : The moniker became popular in the Reagan Era but is now the buzz word Trump and Musk like to use when they talk about reducing government.
40% : Secondly, O'Malley's perception that Trump and others are purposely denigrating people's trust in the Social Security Administration rings true.
37% : Once one of the most trusted federal entities, people are hearing Musk call it a Ponzi scheme, and Trump is exclaiming how millions of dead people are getting payments.
37% : Watch - when the bottom falls out - Musk and Trump will try to convince us it's all part of how things must get worse before they get better, because what they are doing is big.
31% : Trump may say they're not going to touch Social Security, but they already are.

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