Social Security going broke by 2028

Saw that on the news last week a few times....Govt. officials have been warning us peons for years that the social security trust fund is running out of money, and quickly.

HOWEVER, they never ever say we will run out of money to bring in and settle millions and millions of undocumented aliens to our country( already 20 mil here now)

The open border crowd .. (idiots, all of them).. wants unlimited amounts of millions more to come in from anywhere in the world....If you are poor and uneducated and can somehow get here to the United States...YOU CAN STAY,... FOREVER....Not only can you stay, but we will give you , food, housing, medical care, education, etc., etc....Costing the taxpayers hundreds of billions a year to support them in the last year alone....Add tens of millions more projected to come in future years and the cost goes up to the trillions range.

Only caveat to the migrants looking for expensive handouts....You MUST vote democrat..

You fools out there that are working hard every day and are paying a certain percentage of your pay into the social security system will never see a dime paid back to you..... All that money you will have paid into Social Security will be used to keep paying off the illegals to keep voting dem-wit.....AND, not to get out of control and start riots and mahem in the streets..

Think ahead to the future you fools...liberal marxists never do this as they only can only think with feelings and emotion... facts and logic only get in the way.....Filling this country with poor uneducated migrants that will,.. NEVER, EVER,.. be gainfully employed will turn out to be extremely bad in the end for the legal taxpaying citizens....Why is Trump the only person in govt. that sees this clearly?

Dick Cheney said he felt terrible about shooting a 78 year old man but on the bright side it did give him a great idea on how to fix social security.

Well done 3rd. Facts always boggle the mind of the poorly educated while they scatter under their beds because they are told the sky is falling.

Congress should stop robbing the surplus now and it sustains itself indefinately. We the poor making underb100g contributed 1.2 trillion to social security the elderly and disabled withdraw 400 billion last year. Stop using social security for wars.

Why don't we charge Pig oil for the land rents. And stop subsidizing the Corp fgggs. 

Please don't get me talking about pigs again.

Yeah I get miffed when the current takers are whining non-stop about their benefits and its owed to them and them them them...when the current worker is getting taxed more and more every year so the takers get theirs. The ceiling keeps going up and up and up, where was the ceiling when the current COLA loving takers were paying FICA? It only started in the late 90's and has accelerated in the last 10 years or so because SS is a sinking ship.

And dont get me started with the bloated cow called disability, that is a horrible situation which is growing worse and worse every year. When lawyers get a cut of the take (SSDI) you know the situation will keep getting worse.

Phase out over median income..fair is fair, if the current system raises the ceiling on workers then there needs to be phase outs to the takers as well...but politicians know that the takers are gonna get theirs or they lose their jobs.

Cap off now isnt fair, the time for cap off was 30 yrs ago...now we have an aggressive year over year increase on the current worker to pay off the current takers. 

Cap off to me means IMMEDIATE phase out at median income...anything less is a slap in the face to the current worker to benefit the COLA takers.

I agree with this. I don't need SS & although I'm eligible I don't take it. From a financial point of view, the longer I wait the more I'll get if I ever need it. It sounds like a number of posters here may also not need it & for that we are very fortunate. We worked hard, invested smartly, owned our businesses & I would assume are relatively healthy. I know maybe a handful of others in the same situation.

For most Americans this is not the case. We will always have people looking for something free but that is a very small % of our population. I much rather make sure SS is still around for my grandchildren rather than me getting money I don't need. I have enough.

Raise retirement age to 80 and life expectancy to 50 and it will phase itself oit.

SS,

I am talking about equitable fair treatment that does not just penalize the current worker for the sole benefit of the COLA takers...if we are going to unfairly tax the current worker, then it is also fair to phase out if the reason for this increase is to extend the life of SS...it is not fair to remove the cap when it was not removed for the massive group who is taking from SS now with expected COLA increases and most that qualified to take benefits earlier than the current worker will. 

If the goal is to extend the program then the answer cannot be to just tax the current worker more...ESPECIALLY if we use the faulty logic of the current COLA takers that they paid in and are entitled to those funds...as if any tax has claim from citizens...but IF the takers want to use faulty logic then that same logic will be used against them. There was NO cap off to SS when the takers were earning, so there should not be a capless program now. SS was never meant to be a retirement program, it was meant to serve the poor so let it serve the poor and phase out above median income.

Most all tax breaks phase out, medicaid phases out, food stamps phase out above income, so SS should follow the same and start phasing out over median income....

I do not like this one bit...giving more money to a group who does not deserve it...giving money to fund corporate operations and dividends/buybacks for the elite. No thanks.

All I am saying is there was a cap when the current takers were putting in, there should be a cap now...or remove the cap and phase out over median income. IF the reason for this is to extend the program then both sides of the equation would bear the costs of this...not just penalize the worker and give more to the takers.

Id say that only works if the proceeds go towards those paying in currently...not plugging holes from the takers who did not have these stipulations and restrictions. 

Politicians are owned by special interests and job keeping tactics...instead of doing the correct thing and cutting costs they want to tax their way out of responsibility. Nobody is talking about SSDI...that is the monster in the shadows and by far is more dangerous than the holes in regular SS. Its the same umbrella and most positively SSDI is not properly funded for the enormous ammt taken out and the growth it continues to have. The percentages on SSDI are less than 1% and that number has been flat for decades but the cap keeps going up of course. I think SSDI serves a purpose but the program isnt administered properly because we dont fund and staff it to support the enormity of the program.

Back to SS, phase it out over median income...or how about this, phase out over the original pay-in median income, you know the level at which those takers were paying for those years at lower levels than current? Also, SS didnt start to be 6.2 each side until after 1990!