They are called earned benefits. Cutting $500 billion from your money when you need it is asinine.
Would you accept cuts to your bank account? It’s the same logic: it’s your money.
At this stage, Musk could destroy all social security payments and end Medicare, and these mindless, unserious Republicans would let Musk steal all their money.
I mean that last one is just how fragile any system is. It’s ink on a page unless we enforce it.
Many cynical people will insist we don’t follow war crime laws then turn around and are aghast at the idea of all law being arbitrary.
Systems are fragile if the people who claim ownership over them insist they are inappropriate