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slightlv

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20. Thank you for bringing this up.

Reply to Dave says (Reply #14)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 08:28 PM

Mar 21

It's been lost in the milieu of government irresponsibility through the decades. I know the repugs wanted to capture that money as soon as it started coming in, and that's actually what they began to do... funding some of pet projects and tax breaks with it. Gore and Clinton made it into a kind of "lockbox" that supposedly kept people like them away from the money. And Gore was positively ridiculed for it. Oh, how things would have been different if SCOTUS hadn't stuck their nose into OUR election and CHOOSE our Prez themselves that year!

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I'm retired, on Social Security, and have a mortgage. I called my bank... [View all] SnoopDog Mar 21 OP

Unfortunately, Ms. Toad Mar 21 #1

Reality may suck, but it is what it is. n/t elocs Mar 21 #2

I know... SnoopDog Mar 21 #3

I believe the point is mercuryblues Mar 21 #8

THIS Mike 03 Mar 21 #13

Put it into banker's terms. Bev54 Mar 21 #4

Banks, mortgage investors, etc., aren't going to support SS elimination. Silent Type Mar 21 #5

technically, the money we put in funded the previous generations Skittles Mar 21 #6

Except for the nearly $3 trillion we paid into Dave says Mar 21 #14

Thank you for bringing this up. slightlv Mar 21 #20

I'm sure the customer service representative at the bank taking calls will get right on it MichMan Mar 21 #7

I know you are being sarcastic....but SnoopDog Mar 21 #9

Yeah, I'm not calling my credit union and saying my payment is based on SSI. dem4decades Mar 21 #12

then the manager said onethatcares Mar 21 #10

I prefer to be positive in this darkness caused by the Traitorous Republican Party... SnoopDog Mar 21 #11

Banks do not like to foreclose on people . . . AverageOldGuy Mar 21 #15

Steve Mnuchin, The Foreclosure King Zackzzzz Mar 21 #19

At least you have a house. valleyrogue Mar 21 #16

Eviction Moratorium Baron2024 Mar 21 #17

I think that the banks blue cat Mar 21 #18

Your statement feeds right into the idea I've had that this is slightlv Mar 21 #22

Oh yeah. This is a BIG reason the wealth of the many has been cornered by so few. Cheezoholic Mar 21 #23

Imagine if Soc Sec did become an unreliable income source: retirees who need to move to a new rental would find Exp Mar 21 #21