They prove it on most days in many different ways.
tRUMP is just a KKKlown and we have to shut them down.

since inception. They just added two more agents to the Supreme Court, hard-core conservatives, who claim to be textualists and originalists — people who will very likely rule that Social Security and other such federal programs are unconstitutional.

Also, while we’re on the subject, the right to privacy, also known as the right to be left alone by the government, which among other things protects our sovereignty over our bodies and freedom of information sources.

Both categories are based on inferences rather than actual statements in the constitution.

Some conspiracies are very real.

can help. That and a fair and secure election.

That’s one thing the vast majority of us have in common. Trumpets are progressives, even if they don’t know it by that term, and the people they’ve been electing, and those funding them, intend to screw over a few hundred million people, which is pretty damned ambitious of them.

that no one mentions the GLARING reality, it is OUR money that WE contributed.
After the congress just throwing the money into the General fund since conception, now they don't want to repay all the fortune of ours that they stole and spent......

In a way, it is like the supreme PONZI scheme and they have been able to fool people because there has always been a large group of newcomers to fund the old ones. Now that there is a narrowing between the new and old groups of people, it is getting interesting.

Al Gore was right on when he wanted to at least START putting the money into a lock box where it couldn't be touched except for the uses it was intended........

The best part was when Reagan declared SSI was going to crash, so he raised the contribution from 7% to 15%, dumped it into the general fund and then declared the largest tax cut in history because they were "collecting too much in taxes".
Of course his tax cuts went entirely to the wealthy and corporations, neither of which pay into SSI....

reTHUGS are. Somebody oughta write a book!

How To Submit a Comment at Federal Register

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/11/18/2019-24700/rules-regarding-the-frequency-and-notice-of-continuing-disability-reviews

Next to this: This document has a comment period that ends in 31 days.(01/17/2020) - you will see a green button. Click that and be heard.
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This is how those of us in the Global Trade community made ourselves heard on Tariffs.

Thank you for the link!

I submitted a comment also. This has not had any publicity that I have heard. This is just like these sneaky, disgusting people. They would prefer that people die rather than provide this meager income and more importantly, MEDICAL BENEFITS that convey with disability benefits. A society is judged by how they care for the least among them. By that standard, this administration fails miserably. I have sent this info to everyone I know so that they can also submit comments.

They want it all. Everything. They figure they'll get their mansions cleaned by robots, etc.

the GOP (Government Of Putin). Then when Orange Hitler stole the WH, it was abundantly clear: They want to bring back slavery.

1) They're screwing with voting rights and eradicating the power we once had. Democracy in America is circling the drain.

2) The Divider-in Chief is working toward another American Civil War (the new Confederacy has all the guns & ammo this time).

3) He's slowly whitening the population through deportation, the drug epidemic, a potential race war, and some militarized racist cops.

My local GOP Assemblyman's office is selling the "We Back the Badge" merchandise. It seemed very innocent at first, but when my family and I attended a July 4th parade, there was a big truck with that sign on it among signs for all the Repubs (Trump, Ron Johnson, Scott Walker, Sean Duffy, plus the piss ant locals on that year's ballot). I connected the dots, turned to my wife and said that was a white supremacy group that supports the killing of unarmed minorities. It was backlash for what Colin Kaepernick had done (NFL collusion only screwed Colin. Now they're going after the entire race.).

4) Since Dubya's recession, many rural places only offer part-time crap jobs at minimum wage and no benefits. A lot of these jobs have different shifts, so you can't get a second job AND you don't work the same days in consecutive weeks to plan your life. There are no sick days and you'd be lucky to qualify for paid vacation. The next step downward is slavery. The death spiral of labor unions doesn't help either.

5) Further evidence is the ever-expanding gap between the rich and poor. Only the 1% will own the slaves (We the People). Was this part of Reagan's plan with Trickle-Down? Glaciers only move one inch per year, but they created the hills in this country. This has been a slow process, but it will have long-lasting catastrophic effects on society.

6) The safety nets are disappearing quicker than you can say Scrooge. Social Security/Disability, Medicare/Medicaid, SNAP, and Free & reduced school lunch are as endangered as anything Donnie Jr shoots. My guess is that any disabled people and the elderly who won't have Medicaid for nursing homes will be executed.

We absolutely have to remove the GOP vermin from office this November 3rd. Be there. Aloha.

330 million people have to be kept acceptably satisfied overall. Even Russia with its centralized government only lets distant regions suffer famines and medication shortages, things like that. they know better than to let famine hit Moscow for instance.

And slaves? How about just lack of sovereignty over our government so we can’t use it to serve our own well-being? Manual labor is greatly devalued these days, and what you own you have to maintain. No one’s interested in owning or maintaining us.

And that’s the 0.01%. We all know lots of people or are ourselves in the 1%. That’s important, because the professional and other well-incomed classes, who vote!, have to be with the rest of the working classes to fight the few. No accident that overall they’re paid pretty well these days. Those whose parents have to move into their dining rooms would probably be less satisfied in future.

aspiring for 1930s Berlin. I also see the Bill of Rights (except one amendment) being rewritten.

And for those who've said that Donnie Jr will be a future president, think: Cryogenics. Trump, his malignant narcissism, and fake hair will be frozen right after that big one hits.

In reading your post, it would take at least a century to get to that point, but these entitled egomaniacs feel they deserve instant gratification and an overabundance of wealth. They stopped caring about their country, its citizens, and even the planet as a whole. It's the almighty dollar that's their God--just like when the gamers get tired of shooting at cartoon figures and bring real weapons to school, malls, and theaters. Nothing's ever enough anymore for these sociopaths. That's why they want to satisfy their 1% sugar daddies (and mommies) and give them free labor for whatever debauchery that made them wealthy in the first place.

I see more extreme results because my list of their dirty deeds came and went (since Ray-gun) in just 38 years.

They're going to want willing labor and consumers in future, and they're afraid of us for good reason, thus need to keep most people overall shrugging and accepting.

It should be enough that they couldn't run a prosperous, healthy nation even if they wanted to and would run this one down if they could and that we couldn't control them or our governments and we'd be run down with it.

sociopaths among them. Actually, we KNOW that. Somewhere around one in every 25-30 people are diagnosable sociopaths, without empathy or ability to feel guilt.

But "normal" people of inadequate character and judgement are always our big problem. Sensible, moral people don't elect sociopaths, or at least don't re-elect. Remember "the banality of evil?" That banality is everywhere people are. Shouldn't be a surprise that some of those who get big power behave with the same callous lack of principles as the clerks who lie to policyholders for insurance companies or kidnap children from parents at the border.

What we need to keep up our courage and perspective is to remember all the rest of us: Moral people with sufficient strength of character to actually insist on doing right and, as voters and in government, to understand and believe in the critical connections between high principles and wellbeing, between wellbeing for all and wellbeing of self.

The most important lesson everyone should be taking from the Republicans' efforts to take over our government is how much more strongly and impressively principled it is after 250 years of development than too many, influenced by toxic media, believed. I was never one of them, but in response to the almost daily lessons now, wow! It's so great! And we're seeing from a few representative employees that many of its people do believe in and protect the principles of good government of, for and by the people.

The people who've taken over the Republican Party are finding destroying our way of government far harder than they expected.

But I'll never trust the elected ones with ulterior motives.

Republicans want to be Kings and rule over the slaves with whatever cruelty they desire. Thats these monsters definition of freedom.
They want to kill off the so called useless eaters...

We have to get rid of the rightwing sociopath party and stop the abuse and manipulation. Some beliefs like the south will rise again bullshit combined with Nazi and manifest destiny and divine rights of kings are not safe to tolerate.

Some thing's are intolerable to a person with empathy.

who believed known con man red don when he said he was the only puke who would protect Social Security--and all those idiot seniors who voted for him--and still believe in him--are you listening?

Call your congresspeople.

They are so greedy, they are positively homicidal when grabbing money, whether it’s cutting healthcare, food assistance or Social Security benefits. They don’t care if Americans in need die. In fact, that seems to be their preferred outcome. They are monsters.

Yes, people dying is their preferred outcome. It's why we don't have healthcare as a basic human right in the US.

Watch closely how they try to use bias and poo poo single payer.

It started way back with ronnieraygun and a program that is modeled not only in the strategic destruction of the governmental institutions but also venture capitalism which might be easier to describe. Once control over an institution is gained disruption of function to instill negative public sentiment then begin legislating the complete demise of that institution. This is what we are seeing and where these fuckers are going. They want to tear this country apart to nonexistence so that someone like pooty can take over. Get ready, here it comes and I question when we will get a grip on the problem and turn things around.

The notice says my cost of living increase this year is 1.6% and will appear on my January statement.
I have not changed my deductions from 2019.
My "increased" total is 30 cents less than last year.
My wife's total is nearly $30 less than last year.
Enjoy your tax cuts, rich people.

Welcome to DU Mila18.

While Medicare B goes up $9.10, eating up most of the increase, at least in my case. Anyone there check grocery prices over the last year? Milk up 30%, meats up 10-20%, eggs recently doubled.

And I get a whopping 60 bucks for food for a month. I have diabeties among other issues and I can't live on cheap carbs.

If medicare premium didn't go up. I'd be getting an extra $19 a month. Instead I'm getting a $13 a month increase.

9 months to age 62 and minimum social security. My only hope is to grab it by the throat before it is reduced or gone. A hell of a time for the country to fall apart. My contributions have been going in since 1975. I want some of it back.

I have multiple health issues, and I finally had to try for benefits. After a three year battle that made my lawyer a bit richer, Uncle Sam told me to stuff it. I started paying in 1976, when I was 12 years old. Now, I have nothing but a mate and bills. The march downhill is picking up speed...

Somehow it missed us.

politicians to give up their pensions. They all retire as multimillionaires, yet STILL bleed taxpayers for a pension. They get the same increase in their pension yearly that the active "working" members get. How fair is that? Greedy Old Putin-bots is their real title. My SS will raise by $20 per month. Groceries, gas, property taxes are all going up. Where to spend this $20 windfall?

Since the fascist business group ALEC writes all the GOP bills and all the pols have to do is endorse them, Congress is in reality just unskilled labor.

Who count disability benefits as income when approving loans. If SSI disability were impacted we would see foreclosure and repossessions increase, along with an increase in credit card delinquencies. This would impact landlords and grocery stores.

In the spirit of being mean, a policy like this could really do a number on our economy.

But he doesn't understand the economy. At all.

This doesn't surprise me since these assholes have always been claiming there is fraud and abuse in disability benefits without actually providing any evidence. They just know in their gut that people are bribing crooked doctors to make up false medical records.

One doesn't just fill out a form and get disability benefits. There is a lot of medical info required and SSA's own doctors review it to approve claims, which often takes a year or 2. So reproving eligibility every 6 months sounds like an additional bureaucratic administrative burdon.

out how easy it is to bribe a doctor. He got sonny boy diagnosed with bone spurs, and I don't think he even had to visit the office!!
tRump wrote his own glowing medical report, sent it over to the doctor's office by messenger, and got him to say what a fine specimen Donald is. Healthiest person to EVER inhabit the Oval Office.

Since his whole life is a fraud he assumes everyone else is doing it

when the jobs are gone?

on SS benefits.

A six-figure salary with health benefits while serving, the chance to make millions during and after your time in Congress, and a five- to six-figure taxpayer-funded pension once you decide to “retire” - SS cuts will never effect you or your family, so why not screw millions out of their benefits? In a very real sense, a portion of every dollar you withhold from a SS recipient will end up in your pocket as a contribution from a corporation that stands to benefit from killing SS.

They have to drain SOMETHING.

I still do not understand their thinking.

Trump did say he "loves the poorly educated. "

And if people don't pledge loyalty they will be refused?

This is where we are at in America, almost.

trump is just their weapon du jour.

It's the American way! And why not? We've been doing that with the mentally ill since Reagan.

From my illnesses. I'd kill myself rather than give those pigs the joy of watching me suffer and starve.
I'd however fight them until my last day.

It’s just an unfortunate and confusing coincidence of initials. This is just for your information. Please do not attack me for beliefs I have not expressed here.

but it's probably running at a deficit now.

OASDI and disability are each separately paid for by dedicated payroll taxes. Disability's 0.9% by employer and an equal amount by employee. If there's overage, it must be invested in special-issue treasury bills. If there's a deficit, those bills get redeemed.

You probably know this, but it's a good place to insert the information.

I feel like we are in similar boats and they're both sinking.

My whole family died, and I came down with rheumatoid arthritis. I only had a part time job, but I had to take a short unpaid leave to get it under control. Because I had lost a substantial portion of my income, I wanted to apply for my SS but continue to work at my job. They have rules which simply deduct according to whatever amount you make over the limit.

But, SS wouldn't let me gain that edge to stay solvent. They insisted that I could not draw SS unless I had no job at all. Every older worker knows that you don't give up your job that you struggled to get in the first place. But, there came the day when I did have to quit because I couldn't cope with my arthritis. Then started the days of cutting food consumption, never buying anything fun, wearing old clothes...well, you know.

I am now planning to cope in the day when my funds fall below what I need to simply physically survive. I don't have the benefits that many are now going to lose. I don't have anything extra to lose, yet I think that eventually I will lose most of my pathetic income, anyway. It would be easier just to die, but then I think, fuck them all, I'll get power back, and they'll have to devise a different plan to get me.

Duers care.....it is important to hear from people like you

With over 80 votes?

Am I missing something?

Many of his MAGAt followers who can't find jobs, rely on SSI to survive. Did they not think this would happen when they supported Chump? The R's have been screaming for cuts to this program forever, it's no secret. They really do vote against their own self interests.