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> Social security could have it's date of insolvency extended As others have pointed out, "insolvency" for SS is nothing more than a policy position. > Many h
by cletus 7y ago
> Social security could have it's date of insolvency extended
As others have pointed out, "insolvency" for SS is nothing more than a policy position.
> Many homes may go on the market as these older folks that own much of the housing stock pass away
At worst this would speed up the inevitable (at least as some see it). This coming change has been talked about for years and is known as the "Silver Tsunami" [1].
> My biggest concern is losing a lot of that voting block as older voters often serve as a check against naive ideas that younger voter
Here's where you go off the deep end. The irony in all this is that the demographic hit hardest may well be Fox News and Trump's core constituency. I certainly don't wish anyone ill here but if it's going to happen anyway, it's hard not to see the silver lining.
Older voters are increasingly a huge problem, politically speaking (IMHO). They have no concept of long term consequences. They're just trying to avoid anything upsetting the apple cart in the short time they have left here. They fight change of any sort. They're easy pickings for fear-mongering and, as a group, incredibly easy to manipulate.
Your concern about "socialist" policies at the Federal level I'm afraid puts you in a huge voting bloc in the US of those who see no way to solve certain problems that literally no one else has (eg gun violence).
Reasonable people can disagree about how best to provide health care to people but the current system of being tied to employment is an unmitigated disaster that simply has to change. Doing things at the "state" level isn't necessarily better either as all you end up doing is creating 50 regional monopolies that all need to duplicate the same effort.
[1]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-housing-markets-will-feel-the-biggest-impact-from-the-silver-tsunami-2019-12-02 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-housing-markets-will...