[JumpCrisscross]

> Social security is self-funded. It has literally no impact on the deficit or our ability to pay off debt

Technically, yes. Practically, it’s a pair of income and expense streams. Slashing social security payouts to pay for some nonsense is tempting.

[fkfyshroglk]

Sure, practically I can also rob people at gunpoint.

[JumpCrisscross]

Material difference when we’re discussing what a legislative body would and would not do!

My guess is we’ll stick it to Gen X.

[fkfyshroglk]

Maybe you're right. But then I'll be telling anyone who will listen that they're being sold up the river to finance the military and the wealthy against all reason.

[JumpCrisscross]

> I'll be telling anyone who will listen that they're being sold up the river to finance the military and the wealthy against all reason.

My cat's incredibly convinced of a global scheme against his caviar budget, that doesn't really cause any consequence.

[fkfyshroglk]

Ok, but you could say the same thing about people being paranoid about social security bankrupting "us", if "us" indeed has any meaning without a welfare state. Ignorance plagues all quarters of society.