inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 8 days agoRepublican Rich McCormick: Tough choices ahead for welfare programsthehill.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up173arrow-down1external-linkRepublican Rich McCormick: Tough choices ahead for welfare programsthehill.cominclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 8 days agomessage-square33fedilinkfile-text
Great job there Americans and a special shout out to White gen-X’ers for cutting your own soon to be retirement.
minus-squareBronzebeard@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·8 days agoThat’s not the way the math works, regardless of how you “see it”.
minus-squareCount042@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 days agoThat is exactly the way the math works for anything resembling the concept of insurance. All of those programs are a form of insurance. You just don’t understand insurance.
minus-squareBronzebeard@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·7 days agoNo. Social security is not funded the same way that insurance is. We’re talking about the funding here, so the comparison does not work.
That’s not the way the math works, regardless of how you “see it”.
That is exactly the way the math works for anything resembling the concept of insurance.
All of those programs are a form of insurance.
You just don’t understand insurance.
No. Social security is not funded the same way that insurance is. We’re talking about the funding here, so the comparison does not work.