 Alright, another one of our big problems in the United States is we have this ridiculous pyramid scheme called, a forced pyramid scheme, a closed pyramid scheme called Social Security. And numbers just came out from about Social Security and it looks like Social Security will actually go bankrupt one year earlier. Instead of 20, let's see, instead of 2034 it's going to go bankrupt 2033. Now what does it mean that it goes bankrupt? Well, as you know, what happens every year is, you know, paywall taxes are collected and then they're used to pay off existing Social Security payments. And if there's anything left that is given to the government to spend on other stuff and in exchange for giving it to the government the Social Security thing gets a bond, a government IOU. And in the past what has happened is the money coming in, particularly when the baby boomers were at the peak employment level, the money coming in was substantially larger than the money going out because the number of retirees was small. So the money going out was small, the money coming in was big and the surplus was given to the government to spend but the Social Security fund got these bonds from the government and that's called the trust fund. The trust fund is not full of money, it doesn't have a checking account, a saving account, a Silicon Valley bank, it has instead a bunch of bonds, government bonds where the government is committed to paying the Social Security fund. Now in 2021 was the first year in which the amount of money coming into the Social Security fund was less than the amount of money going out and therefore the Social Security fund had in a sense to sell some of its bonds, they had to collect from the government on some of these bonds. Well that has gone, so there was $2.9 trillion in the trust fund in 2020, by 2022 there was only $2.8 trillion, by 2033 that number will go to zero and yet many of those baby boomers will still be alive, many of those baby boomers will still be collecting Social Security, me being one of them and where's the money going to come from? Every year the amount of money coming in because of birth rates, because there's so few children, because the economy is growing so slowly, because productivity is advancing so slowly, there's less and less money coming in, where's the gap going to happen and by their calculation the only way to fix this is to reduce Social Security benefits today by 80%, sorry by 20%, so you only get 80% of the money, it's not good for me but what can you do? So here we have a situation where clearly in in 10 years the system is bankrupt, that is the money in the trust fund is zero, the commitments exceed the tax money coming in, so what needs to go out is far bigger than what comes in, Social Security is negative and put aside Medicare which their hospital insurance of Medicare runs out in 2031, three years, two years earlier than Social Security and this is where we are. Now you'd think that given that there's only 10 years to fix it and the sooner you fix it the less painful it is, the longer you wait, the more you're gonna have to cut benefits so the more you're gonna have to increase taxes or the more you're gonna have to extend retirement age, I mean I'm not even considering the idea of phasing it out or privatizing or anything like that because that's not politically realistic, so you'd think the 10 years before this happened Republicans and Democrats would get together and have I don't know a commission or have some kind of bill in Congress to fix this, whether it's phasing out Social Security, whether it's increasing taxes or whether it's decreasing benefits, one way or the other there's a reality out there bankruptcy, nobody cares, nobody cares. There's a big issue now about you know refunding the government and increasing the death limit of Republicans demanding that Social Security be fixed, no. The Democrats, I mean at least Biden suggested increased taxes on the very rich to fund Social Security for everybody, so at least he's recognizing there's a problem. What do Republicans do? Well they follow the lead of their guru, they follow the lead of Donald Trump and Donald Trump has said that Social Security is off the table, Social Security cannot be touched. So the Republican Party has become the party of evasion, the party that ignores the issues, ignores the problems and it has said okay we're not gonna touch Social Security, we're not gonna touch Medicare, Medicare's hospital plan at least is gonna go bankrupt to 2031, we're not gonna deal with them, we're gonna pretend everything's fine, we're gonna pretend there's no problem, we'll kick the can down the road some more, it's been kicked down the road for decades now, some more, we're not gonna propose any kind of original crazy solutions because Donald Trump doesn't approve, this is the political party you guys get excited about, this is a travesty, you know at least the opposition party should be the one raising these kind of issues, at least in the days of Paul Ryan, I know he's considered the worst right no possible, in the days of Paul Ryan when when the Republicans were in the ran the House of Representatives but didn't have the White House under Obama, Paul Ryan passed some of the best budgets ever, budgets that shrank spending significantly, budgets that converted Medicaid into a voucher program, where is where is a Republican with the balls with the guts to take on Social Security and Medicaid, where's Rand Paul right now, where's anybody in the Republican, where are these the Liberty Caucus, where's the Liberty Caucus, you'd think that they would be concerned about the bankruptcy of the Social Security Fund, yeah nobody cares, again nobody cares just like to chip back, just to squander money, to spend it, just pretend there's no tomorrow, pretend there's no issues, pretend there's no problems and just keep pretending, evasion, evasion, evasion, evasion, evasion. 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