@csgordon@zirk.us @gwaldby

You are mistaken, and in a way that's very troubling because it is based on generations of outright lies by politicians.

Programs like Social Security are just other programs of the US government. By law. They are designed that way, and they're emphatically designed that way, they are no different from funding a road or a research project.

Again I emphasize that yes, politicians have been lying about this very very troublingly.

We even have the people administering the programs, the Social Security administration, emphatically sounding the alarm that their programs are in trouble specifically because they are not obligations. The administrators have been writing report after report trying to get attention as to the fiscal issues they are going to be facing, but we have politicians ignoring all of that and insisting that there's no problem here.

This is a huge deal!

I'm repeating myself, but politicians are insisting that programs like SS are guaranteed, even as the people running SS are warning that the program will fail, and all of the people counting on it are being misled by the politicians.

At any point Social Security payments can be ended. When the program runs out of money they will be ended. That fact is very significant and it is very very unhealthy that the politicians have denied that reality.