The Big Beautiful Lie

The email came on the morning of the Fourth of July.  It was from the Social Security Administration.

In it, folks like me with a social security account were informed that we should celebrate and rejoice in the passing of the recent budget bill.  That bill eliminates taxes on a significant portion of social security benefits, which...according to Trump-appointed Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano, will do amazing things.

By significantly reducing the tax burden on benefits, this legislation reaffirms President Trump’s promise to protect Social Security and helps ensure that seniors can better enjoy the retirement they’ve earned.

Yay money back! Yay Trump! Promise kept! 

Problem is, it's all a lie.

The Trump bill, as enacted, pretty much guarantees that the Social Security Trust Fund will run out of money by late 2032.  That's seven years from now, kids.  One year of solvency has been sliced away, giving us one less year to deal with the future America has been putting off for decades.

Remember what you were doing in 2018?  For oldsters and my fellow middle-aged, that doesn't seem like that long ago.  Heck, I've had both of my current cars longer than that.

That's how much time we have.  In seven years, thanks to Donald J. Trump, Social Security runs out of money.  Benefits for seniors will be slashed by 25%.  There are ways around this, of course.  I mean, the easiest solution?  

Plan on being dead by then.  

But those of us who are still alive and have spent our working lives contributing to Social Security will all be royally screwed.  Don't believe me?  Read this report from the leftist socialist communists over at FoxNews.   Their opinion bull[horn] might be all in with the Big Beautiful Lie, but their business folk know what's coming.

Everyone knows it.  All of us have known this was coming for years.  

Even the liars and thieves who are trying to buy our favor with money they just stole from our future.