CTyankee will be homeless because someone somewhere said something about SS

[BannedFromDU]

CTyankee (65,760 posts) Thu Mar 6, 2025, 02:44 PM

Without Social Security payments, my husband and I will lose our house.

We depend on those accounts as the mainstays of our economic situation. Yes, we have investment accounts as well and some pensions but not enough to ensure we can keep our modest, but nice, home. Since I worked in nonprofit organizations all my life and did not make a lot of money, I have a more modest income than my husband who worked for government entities at the state and local level.

We consider ourselves lucky and are grateful. Hubby went to state schools and university. We are both deeply grateful for what the government has done for us and our well being.

But I am scared sometimes that all this will come crashing down with Dump and Egon in charge of our lives.

This angst about SS ending is both stupid and funny...

...which is usually my favorite combination. Somehow the DUmmies have it in their heads that SS is going to be cut off, butt cold, just because. In fact, SS will just be relieved of fraud and abuse, which is probably at least a third of its monthly payout. If anything, that should make SS recipients MORE secure, but as we ll know, DUmmies are not happy unless they're miserable.

You'd think they'd be nicer to the hand that feeds them, in any case.

[CC27]

We are both deeply grateful for what the government has done for us and our well being.


That is a scary statement

[SVPete]

  In the same realm of reality, the California coast falling into the Pacific Ocean made my house a beach house.

It's amazing what kind of crazy counter-factual @#$% you can concoct when you assume something happens that didn't and won't.

[67 Rover]

Once the camps are built housing will not be an issue. 

[SVPete]

Once the camps are built housing will not be an issue. 

I hear that water might be, though.

[Airwolf]

I retired at 64 and I am 66 now. My SS check is barely above 1K a month and I have been paying into it since I was about 15. My retirement from the Army/National Guard is about the same even when I had as many retirement points at my father but he was an WO2 at his highest rank and I was stuck at E-5 because the higher ranks in the state were sticking around to make 40 years to get their full retirement. What I am saying is that I am not rich but I am not broke either and I still work a few days a week so why can't they work within the limits of SS?

[FunkyZero]

Once the camps are built housing will not be an issue. 

SHHHHHHHH!!!

Damnit man.... OPSEC

[Karin]

in charge of our lives.

Those two are not in charge of your lives.  You are.  Grow up and stop inventing stories in your head.

[Texacon]

We are both deeply grateful for what the government has done for us and our well being.


That is a scary statement

I felt the same way!

KC

[CC27]

I felt the same way!

KC

I bet they believe it 100 percent

[fatboy]

Do these people at age 85 still have a mortgage? How do you lose your home if your home is paid off?

[DefiantSix]

Do these people at age 85 still have a mortgage? How do you lose your home if your home is paid off?

On Linked In, I'm routinely seeing ads from AARP on webcasts advising how to deal with your unretired student loan debt.

Let me repeat that: Hosted by AARP. 

It's very definitely possible that these mouth breathers are so in hock up to their eyeballs that not only do they still owe on their student loan debt, but are still underwater on their little shithole hovels as well. Poor financial planning in one aspect of their lives certainly lends added credence to the same being present in other areas.

[BannedFromDU]

On Linked In, I'm routinely seeing ads from AARP on webcasts advising how to deal with your unretired student loan debt.

Let me repeat that: Hosted by AARP. 

It's very definitely possible that these mouth breathers are so in hock up to their eyeballs that not only do they still owe on their student loan debt, but are still underwater on their little shithole hovels as well. Poor financial planning in one aspect of their lives certainly lends added credence to the same being present in other areas.

     Their plan was to have the government care for them no matter what. Probably went back to school in the 80s to learn how to "find themselves," and now they spend $250 on tickets to go see some fossil from the 70's perform ancient hits.

[DefiantSix]

...Probably went back to school in the 80s to learn how to "find themselves," and now they spend $250 on tickets to go see some fossil from the 70's perform ancient hits.

Apparently they were scammed. Went to school to find themselves and currently can't find their own arsehole with both hands, a mirror, a map, GPS location fixes and friggin' approach radar. The irony is staggering. 

[Texacon]

I could be mistaken but I think CTY got a book published. She should be able to pay all her bills with the sales of her book.

 

KC

[Carl]

Husband worked state and local government jobs but has to depend on SS for keeping a house?

Bullshit story or the worst financial planners ever.

[Old n Grumpy]

All the dump monkeys on SSI should be afraid when DOGE looks into fraud and abuse there!

Their gravy train will have come to the last stop

[BamaMoose]

All the dump monkeys on SSI should be afraid when DOGE looks into fraud and abuse there!

Their gravy train will have come to the last stop

I'm sure some of them like SubwayKitty are scared shitless.  I don't understand how someone like her can never work a day in their life, get on SSI as soon as they turn 18 and spend their entire life on SSI and other welfare programs, without ever being required to at least attempt to perform some sort of function that contributes to the community.  And it's quite possible that if she had some sort of purpose, it might actually be good for her mental health.  Instead, she gets crazier every day and she is totally dependent on charity that could disappear at any time.