They will never text the rich their 2% which would save the country in anyone that voted for Trump you voted against yourself if you're poor they only care about the billionaires which don't even pay taxes what the hell I was born with a bone through my spine I work 20 years and I was screwed out of my disability so I get SSI... I had enough points in but it took 5 years so they say I'm not eligible for SSD when I worked for it but maybe I'm lucky cuz then I don't have to be on a spend down... but I'm not allowed to have money in the bank over 2,000 and I try to save money and I can't put it in the bank I have to spend it but I'm not allowed to own things either how is that right when you suffered your whole life? I think I went over by 130.00 and they're going to come after me and I'm going to fight them because it's your right to have money in the bank unless your handicapped and suffered your whole life what the hell is wrong with these people it's the same laws as 1972... they would actually take money from my own mother because she worked what the hell
Do you even know how Social Security works? It has zero to do with the rich. You pay in when you work and you collect when you retire. People working pay and every employer pays. What does the rich have to do with that?
Yeah these programs are things Americans worked for and pay taxes towards don’t mess with things that we are entitled to and part of the reason why we live in this country. It’s just ridiculous how our leaders and the wealthy just start messing with principles and programs and money To create problems so they can run campaigns and fundraisers on fixing them the same things they broke and blame others. If we could have transparency and background checks ethical standards and stop lobbyist from paying off politicians are government could function the way it’s supposed to
Seniors who are facing homelessness, and are forced to leave America have had to make the difficult decision to forfeit their Medicare benefits that they have worked all their lives for. The American government could save billions by outsourcing medical!
He's absolutely right... Social security should be enhanced not cut... People on social security haven't had a decent cost of living increase in 30 to 40 years... And people who rely solely on social security to survive are struggling
After all deductions I get only $900/month. My rent is the lowest I've seen for where I live at $800/month. UTILITIES? FOOD? NEEDS? The average rent is $1,500/month or more. This is another result of hatred of others not white. They'll have to make it available to all people who pay into it.
@@roboparks lol. This what I am saying. Republicans call it payroll tax, because employers pay another half of it, and they don’t want to. They are selling it as tax cut for middle class, and many are buying it.
People have known for years that Republicans have wanted to cut "entitlements," some have allowed themselves to be distracted by cultural war nonsense and other absurdities.
It's the govt. They want to cut it. Have wanted to cut it forever because they can't figure out a legal way to profit off of it. Lol. How do people not see this?
The 2025 administration will try to eradicate all the lowest income people especially elderly and disadvantaged dependent on Social Security and Medicare! This will encompass anyone from Any Party‼️
But there are at least 3 programs within the Social Security entitlement. SS for retirement is paid by us and held in a trust fund. Medicare, Medicaid, and disability are paid for by the government. So if they are planning on cutting the SS retirement funds, they would be stealing our money that we entrusted the government to hold for us. I’d rather just get all my money back and let me invest it. Oh, and the government collects interest on that
Medicaid is paid by block grants to states from federal government. Medicare/ SSDI is funded 46% from general revenue, 34% by payroll taxes and 15% by the beneficiaries.
And then they wanna make homelessness a criminal behavior so we’ll all be in prison and they’ll be paying for us to live in prison and feeding us and providing medical care for us while we’re in prison. So what’s the point it’s gonna cost us more to be in prison than in our little lives that we get right now plus at the same time a lot of us work part-time so we’re still paying into the treasury part time. It’s a very very bad plan.
The politicians who vote against expanding and making social security solvent for decades do not work for the people. They work for corporations. We need politicians who work for the people.
Most of republicans congress voted against people’s needs..why majority of them were re elected 😮.. the people voted should be educated who are against people’s right !
They don't work. They dance with Trump to YMCA and womanize as they thumb their nose at us because they know we can't do anything about it! (Legally. )
It's called the Republican party... they take ss payments from our checks for years yet want to end it like we never put money into the ss system. What were you thinking people who voted from trump. He said what he was going to do, but once again, you didn't believe him.
Well, that's not true. Kamala Harris had a plan to extend SS programs until 2060 but she lost the election. Also, every Democrat politician is for SS policies, generally.
Save the dignity of the elderly. I can't afford to live 💔 😢 We have served our families and communities. Thank you for you attention to this matter . God bless
@@markpartin8403after this election we should commit. I’m 27 years old, I want to opt out of social security tax and don’t mind living off of my own retirement account when I retire. This is a blatant ripoff with its current state, I won’t see a penny when I retire. Fix it or get rid of it I say.
Thank you Mr. Larson for helping the fight to PROTECT OUR SOCIAL SECURITY. I, as many other millions of Americans have worked 40 years of my life to have my SS. IT IS THE ONLY INCOME I HAVE TO LIVE ON. HOW CAN THEY EVEN TRY TO TAKE THIS FROM US??? I CAN BARELY LIVE ON WHAT I RECEIVE. IT'S UNBELIEVABLE THAT OUR OWN GOVERNMENT WILL SEE US HOMELESS. THANK YOU MR. LARSON.
I have so many medical bills. I'm 70 years old and disabled. I'm probably going to have to get a job. We get a small raise while at the same time you raise our Medicare premiums.
I feel your pain and anxiety - just re-did my resume! who is going to hire us? We are older and need more breaks and days off due to our disabilities - and now I got kicked off medicaid - I keep going backwards since becoming disabled and just got back on my feet after being out of work and being diagnosed two years ago and rent just keeps getting raised as well as taxes and prices - we need to band together about any cuts to these programs.
@@sallyprzybil2404 I'm short of 22.21 a Month in just medical, didn't count how much utilities, rent, other insurance, food, and so on have increased. My cost of living was a joke, just like for every Senior.
We worked hard all our lives for that money and need and depend on it to pay bills, rent and get groceries. We deserve to be treated with respect and Congress needs to get off their butts and work out something to save Social Security and Medicare. Just because Congress makes a lot of money, doesn't mean they should ignore the rest of the people. It's about time that somebody speaks up on our behalf. Congress thinks nothing about giving themselves raises and being paid to do nothing but arguing and fighting among themselves or kicking others out for doing their jobs. They should try living the way we do from day to day on what we have. They would have an eye opening experience.
Why are they messing with money we paid into the system as an insurance?! Money that we paid into from the time we started working as kids! Stop abusing the people already! Damn it!
This has always been the case. Always. If you are a Republican, you are for the rich, not the poor. If you are a Democrat you are for the poor & middle class.
You are so appreciated for standing up for the American people's Social Security, the only thing keeping so many of us with a roof over our family's heads. And there are so very many "newly" low-income people; people who up until the last few years were always able to provide a comfortable life for themselves and their families; people who never had to ask anyone for ANYTHING -- and now they are in the Food Bank lines and visiting the local Food Pantries on a routine basis and church thrift stores out of necessity, certainly not their health. Imagine how humbling this would be, how demeaning this might feel to a person who had, himself, donated to the needy. This I know, personally. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. Again, thank you, sir. 🙏🙏
Thank you Senator Larson! We need more Senators like you with the courage and backbone to stand up against cutting Social Security! Millions of people depend on Social Security for their livelihood! If anything, the benefits need to be increased, not eliminated! If all income were taxed for Social Security instead of only the first $168,600, there would be no crisis in the Social Security Fund! Tax the rich! Save Social Security for the people who have been paying into it for decades!
They won't do anything about this. They're all too busy rushing off for holidays, vacations, and just not showing up to work. Seniors are trashed in this country and are now the largest growing segment of homeless. Not because of adictions or mental illness, or even lack of financial planning. But out of sheer poverty!
@@user-te9ut7ms4l Only a small part of their pay isn't taxed for SSI. All of their government salary will be taxed next year when they raise the wage base cap to $176k.
They pay into SS just like everyone else, why wouldn't they be entitled to what they pay in?? They get a relatively small pension, but most of their retirement income is from the 401k they pay into. Cite evidence they all do insider trading.
This is very true what he is saying. I am 73 snd retired and collect SS . I stsrted collecting it at 62 because I needed it at that time! I have to continue working part time to be able to psy my bills , and dont have enough money to buy meat, sometimes i get to buy a little bit of ground beef. Seniors need a big raise each month to make our bills . im not well but still have to suffer each day to work to survive!!
im right with you. 62, getting sicker and older and still must work a lousy underpaid job. still cant make ends meet. im getting older, its harder to work, im terrified new admin will cut this!
I get tired of how it's almost deliberate how they ( gov and big business) try to make it harder for for seniors, disabled and lower income folks. . The pharmacies, grocery stores, transportation help ect that used to be locally accessible, now close or move farther away adding to more costs and hardships for needy people in neighborhoods. Food and medicine is higher also, and if you have a pet, good luck finding affordable care and supplies for them, too. It's oppressive to think they now want to cut more funding for seniors? Get a heart. Shame on you.
If you've been collecting SS since age 62 and your now 73 in the 11 yrs you've collected benefits you've definitely collected more in benefits than you ever contributed to the system you actually are being paid with house money or in other words the taxes that working people are paying into the system and may never see a dime of SS you and millions of others have used up their contribution and now your taking mine You think that's fair? SS is really borrowing from Peter to pay Paul
People that do labor jobs are physically incapable of doing that type of work at that age. Nor do employers want seniors doing those jobs when they can hire younger workers for less money. Many seniors are forced into retirement at age 62.
FRA is 67 now. Otherwise you take a permanent 30% cut for the rest of your life. And now they want raise FRA to 68 or 70, so basically cutting it more the earlier you take SS.
You hit the nail on the head. If we aren't able to contribute to the economy, but only survive on the SS that we've earned, we aren't profitable for them. We aren't able to spend $50,000 on frivolous items, and up the profits for the corporations. Cut SS, and throw those who receive SS that we worked for and paid into quickly to the curb, their goal is and has been for quite a while not to take the trillions away from us and up their personal wealth. SS came out of every paycheck we received. Just think of all the people who died before retirement age and never received a penny of it. My cousin was never married, or had children, and worked for 55 yrs in jobs, and she paid into SS for those 55 years. She received the minimum SS for her last 10yrs. If the billionaires aren't making money off of us as consumers, they don't need us. They just want us to go away now as quickly as possible, because they aren't making money off of us, and at our age, cutting SS would mean death. To these Republican politicians, and corporations, they see us as a blight on the country -and more money for them. Out of sight, out of mind. Might as well be Soylent Green.
If not from work, from disability. I’m 62 and having all sorts of physical problems. I can’t work but can’t get approved for disability (which is, of course, social security).
How about let the people in the room. that is dirty. Let cameras in the room. We can't trust these people anymore!!! to write laws that don't harm us!!!
It just makes me ill thinking about the ramifications of this issue. We tried to tell them. 😢 I worked three jobs back in the 80s when President Reagan did the exact same thing. Tariffs are real dangerous.🇺🇸
My husband and I are getting are house ready to put it up for sale,we are scared and dont want to move, but we wouldn't be able to afford it.its a crying shame that we have to think this way we are supposed to be happy, nor scared.
Please don't take that away from the people who received it & need it to live & especially our elderly & our children. Praying for everyone🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾😢😢😢😢💔💔💔💔
Let all Politicians Live from paycheck to paycheck receiving Social Security Benefits Only there would not be a problem funding Social Security .Most Politicians is not hurting for money to live off of..
THIS!!!! THEY SHOULD EVEN TRY FOR 2 MONTHS... SEE THEM GOING TO FOOD BANK'S CHURCH'S NOT GOING TO.. DENTIST'S DOCTOR'S........ LET THEM LIVE LIKE WE HAVE TO..... FIGURING OUT HOW TO GET BY!!!!!!!!!
Tennessee WHAT THE HECK !!! No wonder 🤔 I want to leave this state ! They hate me because I shine to bright 🌞 Do you know how heart breaking it is to not be able to help your family 💔 Or buy gifts for my grand children
I’m one of those Baby Boomers & as of last year I’ve been displaced twice & temporarily reside with a family member I should not be around at all!homeless for about a year & went through a program?for housing which taken away for wrong reason!collect a little over a $1,000. a month & I’m disabled! Homeless & disabled!! Tell me what I do now! Besides wanting to end it all ? Huh?!!
Anybody making over $176,000 doesn't have to pay into social security. Meaning the wealthiest people in this country dont contribute their fair share. Social security can be expanded to provide better benefits for the elderly if we lift this cap. WHY AREN'T WE TALKING ABOUT THIS??
That isn't true. If you make over $175 K, you pay 12.4% on every dollar up to $168 K. This means they pay into Social Security a lot more than most. The rest of your comment and the responses need to be corrected. Divisive rhetoric fixes nothing. Consider that we have never indexed Social Security for the additional years people live due to modern medical advances. Most people receive much more than they put in, which shoots your "fair share" argument in the foot. When the program started, over 30 people were paying for every individual receiving a benefit. Now, 3 people are paying in for every beneficiary. At this rate, the correct retirement age should be in the mid-70s. Is anybody going to hold off? A few might. Most likely, the rich, so not only will they have paid more than their "fair share," but they will also continue to be vilified for not sucking with money. We aren't talking about it BECAUSE IT ISN'T A THING!! But we also aren't talking about the real issues, and we're using stupid socialist terms like "fair share" to complain about nothing.
I would like to see which politicians are proposing cuts to social security by raising the age etc. The people who voted for you need to know, if their vote is bringing harm to themselves.
The Social Security funds I and my employers have put into “MY” SS fund better not be touched by Government officials. Period. Full Stop. It is not an insurance program. It’s forced savings I was required to take out of my earnings and it better be there when I retire.
Yes i am an average 75 year old but the 1400. and 1900. amoumts are before meicare A ana B are taken out of that total and we then try to live on what is left.
Thank God for Rep Larson, I'm four years away from my Benefits, But I'll be unable to afford Medical insurance or a Mortgage, and wind up homeless after all my working years, not right.....
ProtectAmerican tax payers social security take government retirement fund and put them on it and a fix will be found. No government should get a better retirement plan than the people they represent.
Cutting benefits to those who are at poverty levels in order to give it to the rich is cruel…”trickle down economics” is a scam on some of our most vulnerable who’ve worked their entire lives.
Thank you, Jim Larson!!! Appreciate you speaking up for us! It's frightening to think we'll lose SS. There will be millions added to the homeless if it's taken away or decreased.
Go John Lawson.We need a boost on social security.Why you have no food in my house?This is ridiculous.You know congress didn't give us a boost it says 1970 😂❤ Haven't had an increase since 1970.We need to increase in social security and we need it fast
If we raise the cap past $175,000, we could make the billionaires and millionaires pay their fair share. But of course almost every politician has big money in their ear. GET BIG MONEY OUT OF POLITICS!!!
Well If you really must know I worked 47 hard labor years my first job I was 14 growing up very poor sucks going to be hungry sometimes no heat in the winter I've never been lazy I retired from job 2023 I was there 27 years retired at 62 had to 4 hernias carpol tunnel back problems sucks to work in pain but I did my scars on my gut and my hands are my resume if they can give refugees,illegals the red carpet rolled out oh send trillions to free loading Ukraine then yes I deserve 15% not 2.5% insulting crap I've worked my ass off for 47 years and payed the price so there ya go lunger savvy
Wish i were president. These solutions are not that hard to figure out. You just need to use common knowledge. Thinking about running for local office to get started. Have plenty of wealthy friends that think i should. Nothing against either side of the isle but everything ive been seeing is a circus. A well oiled machine of crazy people. Im almost ashamed to say that this is america. Wake up people. Peace
If you’re cutting our social security you can pay us out right. We pay into that the first day we start working. Thats decades of money I’ll be owed and expect.
We need term limits. We need to get these career politicians out of Washington. They have ruined everything. They are ruining our country. If we don’t do term limits, we are doomed.
Term limits would help. getting the let them in cake people out of office. Especially where the senate is concerned, they sit too easy between elections we need a pay cut system for congress and the senate to if they do a bad job running the country they lose money. get these guys off their pedestals
Without my social security I cannot buy food, pay my utilities, pay for my medicines, pay my taxes or anything else. And if I don't have my Medicare to take care of my medical needs then I will die. Never in my life would I have thought my senior years would be like this. How could people be so stupid to elect a government like this. I don't understand.😢
You take seniors monthly social security checks then you best compensate them somehow. Perhaps a lumpsum check for all they paid into the system for decades?
Please don't be an idiot. Social Security faced a $13 trillion dollar hole for a decade begining a decade from now. Our total foreign aid, of all sorts is $63 billion excluding money that has been going to Ukraine and the money just voted this year to Israel.*. So, you're going to save maybe 5% of all the money you need by stopping all foreign aid. And in the meantime Donald Trump is giving away the money in the trust fund to wealthier retirees (that's who benefits from no taxes on Social Security, the upper middle class) and to municipal and county employees (please don't say policemen, firefighters and teachers though that is the profession of many of these employees) who have never paid into the system while they have been so employed and instead have a fat pension (you obviously don't personally know many in that category because they do!). And the plan is to privatize Social Security... make no mistake. But first they are going to kill Medicaid expansion, which comes from the general budget and is easy to read out. And there's a reason Dr. Oz is being appointed to head CMS. He has repeatedly said he wants to turn Medicare into Medicare Advantage. Yes, he himself is going to profit immensely from that. But it's just one more reason that Trump doesn't want to have the FBI investigate it's nominees (Tulsi Gabbard couldn't get a top secret security clearance nor could Pete Hegseth) not have them sign ethics pledges (nearly half of Trump's cabinet picks in 2016-2017 had major ethical conflicts of interest.) * Israel is usually one of the biggest recipients of foreign aid at around $3 billion, even when they aren't in essence at war.
Its already been investigated. They Have been borrowing from the Fund for 40 years and NO intention of even making a payment back to the fund. Its strait stealing from our elected official's.
Children that are suffering need this money yes I’m glad to hear you speak about this nobody is getting rich off there checks some people are still struggling with the check they have and they want to take that wow suffering is not a enough for them
This will be the second benchmark how I will judge this new administration. This is a non-partisan issue, if your American, retiring, disabled, born, raised. This is a disgrace from both Democrat and now Republicans. It all goes back into the US Economy, and not to some middle east or some other foreign countries.
You don't cut social security and Medicare we earned this money. Ee have to live off it. Fix the social security. Thus is what we live on. Seniirs and liw invime need our benefit
Everyone i know is or has been cut off SSI or even SSA because of something soooooo rediculous or didn't make a ten day deadline wich is not enough time because the mail never delivered it themselves in time or delayed mail and only gave a day to send it in we need a proper time of 30 days like anywhere else would give you a time CDA welfare or management offices we need a longer timely manner to send proofs or whatever documents to SSI
Make the rich pay their fair share it's only right.
They will never text the rich their 2% which would save the country in anyone that voted for Trump you voted against yourself if you're poor they only care about the billionaires which don't even pay taxes what the hell I was born with a bone through my spine I work 20 years and I was screwed out of my disability so I get SSI... I had enough points in but it took 5 years so they say I'm not eligible for SSD when I worked for it but maybe I'm lucky cuz then I don't have to be on a spend down... but I'm not allowed to have money in the bank over 2,000 and I try to save money and I can't put it in the bank I have to spend it but I'm not allowed to own things either how is that right when you suffered your whole life? I think I went over by 130.00 and they're going to come after me and I'm going to fight them because it's your right to have money in the bank unless your handicapped and suffered your whole life what the hell is wrong with these people it's the same laws as 1972... they would actually take money from my own mother because she worked what the hell
Not with Trump/MAGA in control. Never going to happen. They don’t care about the average American.
Do you even know how Social Security works? It has zero to do with the rich. You pay in when you work and you collect when you retire. People working pay and every employer pays. What does the rich have to do with that?
The rich about to control the country.. They voted them all in. It's over for us small fries.
Raise the cap!!!!
Keep fighting for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. 👍
Yeah these programs are things Americans worked for and pay taxes towards don’t mess with things that we are entitled to and part of the reason why we live in this country. It’s just ridiculous how our leaders and the wealthy just start messing with principles and programs and money To create problems so they can run campaigns and fundraisers on fixing them the same things they broke and blame others. If we could have transparency and background checks ethical standards and stop lobbyist from paying off politicians are government could function the way it’s supposed to
The Republicans don't give a rat a## about anything that doesn't deepen their own pockets.
All health care too
Yes, We The People.
Seniors who are facing homelessness, and are forced to leave America have had to make the difficult decision to forfeit their Medicare benefits that they have worked all their lives for. The American government could save billions by outsourcing medical!
He's absolutely right... Social security should be enhanced not cut... People on social security haven't had a decent cost of living increase in 30 to 40 years... And people who rely solely on social security to survive are struggling
After all deductions I get only $900/month.
My rent is the lowest I've seen for where I live at $800/month.
UTILITIES? FOOD? NEEDS?
The average rent is $1,500/month or more.
This is another result of hatred of others not white.
They'll have to make it available to all people who pay into it.
Absolutely, try living on $900/month and pay bills, ugh
He just said it's been 53 year's.
@@rickwaggoner8479 I "LIVE" on 900 a mo
Everything is increasing, food rents power.🙄🙏"God, help !
No cuts to social security.
No payroll tax, no SS.
@@vg7985 Federal Payroll tax is a separate deduction to SSA as with Medicare. Its right on your check stub.
@@roboparks lol. This what I am saying. Republicans call it payroll tax, because employers pay another half of it, and they don’t want to. They are selling it as tax cut for middle class, and many are buying it.
Belongs to we the people, We pay into it , It Belongs to us
Busted my bum for over 45 years....if they take my Social Security and Medicare I’m out on the street, physically disabled and 71.
Nooo
I’m 65 still pay into SS we need to end the Military Industrial Complex!
I'm 63 and have pancreatic cancer. If ssdi and medicare go, I'm dead
Musk/Trump are coming after SSI sdi and Medicare/aid
Corrupt joe and his war machine.
No closed door negotiations on social security. We need to see exactly who is trying to cut do away with this sacred trust.
The Republicans and trump
People have known for years that Republicans have wanted to cut "entitlements," some have allowed themselves to be distracted by cultural war nonsense and other absurdities.
It's the govt. They want to cut it. Have wanted to cut it forever because they can't figure out a legal way to profit off of it. Lol. How do people not see this?
@LisaStover-y2b, Which includes many involved in Project 2025. 😅
The 2025 administration will try to eradicate all the lowest income people especially elderly and disadvantaged dependent on Social Security and Medicare! This will encompass anyone from Any Party‼️
Thank you Mr. Larson! We are struggling to live.
yess thank you
Yes we are
A Brave American saying and doing the right things, For the People !
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Politicians stop abusing our Social Security, Social Security is for those that paid into it.
Guess what trump plans to end it .
@@LisaStover-y2bI hear ya. I tried telling it to my brothers and they still don’t believe it. 😢 🇺🇸💞
But there are at least 3 programs within the Social Security entitlement. SS for retirement is paid by us and held in a trust fund. Medicare, Medicaid, and disability are paid for by the government. So if they are planning on cutting the SS retirement funds, they would be stealing our money that we entrusted the government to hold for us. I’d rather just get all my money back and let me invest it. Oh, and the government collects interest on that
Medicaid is paid by block grants to states from federal government. Medicare/ SSDI is funded 46% from general revenue, 34% by payroll taxes and 15% by the beneficiaries.
Elections have repercussions, vote educated and wisely 🤔
Please fight to save Social Security, Millions will be homeless
Trump will just make homelessness illegal…that’s how he will solve that problem!
That’s exactly what the wealthy want. They don’t give a damn.
And then they wanna make homelessness a criminal behavior so we’ll all be in prison and they’ll be paying for us to live in prison and feeding us and providing medical care for us while we’re in prison. So what’s the point it’s gonna cost us more to be in prison than in our little lives that we get right now plus at the same time a lot of us work part-time so we’re still paying into the treasury part time. It’s a very very bad plan.
These rich creeps don't care about us!! They don't EVER have to worry about it!
Just as they are making homelessness a jailable offense
The politicians who vote against expanding and making social security solvent for decades do not work for the people. They work for corporations. We need politicians who work for the people.
Most of republicans congress voted against people’s needs..why majority of them were re elected 😮.. the people voted should be educated who are against people’s right !
They don't work. They dance with Trump to YMCA and womanize as they thumb their nose at us because they know we can't do anything about it! (Legally. )
It's called the Republican party... they take ss payments from our checks for years yet want to end it like we never put money into the ss system. What were you thinking people who voted from trump. He said what he was going to do, but once again, you didn't believe him.
Luigi M. for president
We worked for the social security.we have to live on it. Medicare
agreee and pelosi with her insider trading should pay for it along with all that cotton policies laundering our tax dollars
They don't care .
They should care enough to strengthen and keep Social Security and Medicare, if we can't pay our bills the higher ups (their donors) can't get paid.
Thankyou Representative Larson.
Thk u Sir.. People depend on this & Worked for it.. It's not a option we all earned it!
Larsen has been fighting for us for years
Then call a few more and tell them to get on board!
www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
Sounds like Rep. John Larson is the only politician that cares for us on Social Security.
Every Democrat voter warned everyone of what is to come from a new trump administration. Democrats never fought to raise nor take away ssi
Well, that's not true. Kamala Harris had a plan to extend SS programs until 2060 but she lost the election. Also, every Democrat politician is for SS policies, generally.
One man, Elizabeth Warren is paid 285,000 a year but has net worth of 60 million dollars. How is that possible?
Senator Mike Lee Utah is fighting as well.
Ron Wyden from Oregon is helping us too.
Thank you for this contribution, Rep Larson! ✊👏👏 🇺🇲
Save the dignity of the elderly. I can't afford to live 💔 😢 We have served our families and communities. Thank you for you attention to this matter . God bless
Why didnt you save or invest? Why did you rely on a socialistic welfare program less than 100 years old?
😢💝🫂 we gen y and younger thank you and we will fight
Protect Social Security!
Get the hands of the politicians off of it!
Socialism is bad. I shouldnt need to pay for your retirement because you didnt save.
@@keithcampbell7820 make the 1% contribute! That includes politicians
IT IS A GOVERNMENT PROGRAM. YOU DO NOT WANT PRIVATIZED SOCIAL SECURITY. THEY WILL SCREW YOU EVERYTIME. WOW. JUST WOW.
@@matthewhudson2702 The 1% is pressing to get their hands on Social Security and profit from it.
@@markpartin8403after this election we should commit. I’m 27 years old, I want to opt out of social security tax and don’t mind living off of my own retirement account when I retire. This is a blatant ripoff with its current state, I won’t see a penny when I retire. Fix it or get rid of it I say.
Thank you
Mr. Larson for helping the fight to PROTECT OUR SOCIAL SECURITY. I, as many other millions of Americans have worked 40 years of my life to have my SS.
IT IS THE ONLY INCOME I HAVE TO LIVE ON.
HOW CAN THEY EVEN TRY TO TAKE THIS FROM US???
I CAN BARELY LIVE ON WHAT I RECEIVE.
IT'S UNBELIEVABLE THAT OUR OWN GOVERNMENT WILL SEE US HOMELESS.
THANK YOU
MR. LARSON.
Maga doesn't care about us
I have so many medical bills. I'm 70 years old and disabled. I'm probably going to have to get a job. We get a small raise while at the same time you raise our Medicare premiums.
After the Medicare raise I’ll get about $10 more a month!
@@sallyprzybil2404the last raised cost me 40 dollars. Got 128 dollr raise put me above the cut off for medicade that paid my medicate premium of 170.
I feel your pain and anxiety - just re-did my resume! who is going to hire us? We are older and need more breaks and days off due to our disabilities - and now I got kicked off medicaid - I keep going backwards since becoming disabled and just got back on my feet after being out of work and being diagnosed two years ago and rent just keeps getting raised as well as taxes and prices - we need to band together about any cuts to these programs.
@@sallyprzybil2404 I'm short of 22.21 a Month in just medical, didn't count how much utilities, rent, other insurance, food, and so on have increased. My cost of living was a joke, just like for every Senior.
We worked hard all our lives for that money and need and depend on it to pay bills, rent and get groceries. We deserve to be treated with respect and Congress needs to get off their butts and work out something to save Social Security and Medicare. Just because Congress makes a lot of money, doesn't mean they should ignore the rest of the people. It's about time that somebody speaks up on our behalf. Congress thinks nothing about giving themselves raises and being paid to do nothing but arguing and fighting among themselves or kicking others out for doing their jobs. They should try living the way we do from day to day on what we have. They would have an eye opening experience.
Larson for president !!! This guy has a heart !
Ain’t nobody going to want to come after trump and Vance to clean up the mess that they plan to make.
@@Linda-h1f3eIf they do everything they can to block him now, there will be less mess to be cleaned up! 😉
Tough and Smart with a Heart and Not a Push Over! He has MY VOTE!
Its time to listen, petition, stand up to be counted for as an American.
TY John Larson. Please keep the money hawks away from our benefits.
Thank you x 💯 % for speaking the truth . Social security is a TRUE life line.
Why are they messing with money we paid into the system as an insurance?! Money that we paid into from the time we started working as kids! Stop abusing the people already! Damn it!
Well said Thank you 👍🏼
This has always been the case. Always. If you are a Republican, you are for the rich, not the poor. If you are a Democrat you are for the poor & middle class.
@@jemma6596that's what I've been saying for years. Why do people vote against their own best interest?
Love this hero for the people! Thank you!
Take the cap off of ppl that earn Over 168k. Make the rich pay into the fund. That would fund the accounts forever.
$168k is less than $174k.
@jonp4846 174 is for 2025
@@atomicredhead 174 is what politicians make now. The point was the cap is below what they make.
It’s why and how Trump got elected. His larger base is the uber wealthy who don’t want to pay taxes.
YES!!!!! GET RID OF CAP
NO REASON TO HAVE
THAT!!!!!!
You are so appreciated for standing up for the American people's Social Security, the only thing keeping so many of us with a roof over our family's heads. And there are so very many "newly" low-income people; people who up until the last few years were always able to provide a comfortable life for themselves and their families; people who never had to ask anyone for ANYTHING -- and now they are in the Food Bank lines and visiting the local Food Pantries on a routine basis and church thrift stores out of necessity, certainly not their health. Imagine how humbling this would be, how demeaning this might feel to a person who had, himself, donated to the needy. This I know, personally. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. Again, thank you, sir. 🙏🙏
Thank you Senator Larson!
We need more Senators like you with the courage and backbone to stand up against cutting Social Security!
Millions of people depend on Social Security for their livelihood! If anything, the benefits need to be increased, not eliminated!
If all income were taxed for Social Security instead of only the first $168,600, there would be no crisis in the Social Security Fund! Tax the rich!
Save Social Security for the people who have been paying into it for decades!
Thank you for airing this.
They won't do anything about this. They're all too busy rushing off for holidays, vacations, and just not showing up to work.
Seniors are trashed in this country and are now the largest growing segment of homeless. Not because of adictions or mental illness, or even lack of financial planning. But out of sheer poverty!
Thank you for battling for seniors.
12.4% paid throughout our work for 35 to 40 years or more. Where is the problem in understanding that this is our work, not a handout from congress?
Enough is Enough wr have worked for this. You were elected by the Voters. Senior Citizen deserves better.
It’s a lot of seniors voted republicans against to their own benefits. They are very ignorant of who really cares for them 😢
Congressman shouldn’t get SS checks. They get a forever pay check & can do insider trading making millions
AND THEY DON'T PAY SSI TAXES THEY PASSED A LAW THAT SAID PEOPLE WHO MAKE OVER A CERTAIN AMOUNT DON'T PAY !!
@user-te9ut7ms4l yep, if you make over $175,000 a year, you don't have to contribute! BIG MONEY HAS RUINED THIS COUNTRY
@@user-te9ut7ms4l Only a small part of their pay isn't taxed for SSI. All of their government salary will be taxed next year when they raise the wage base cap to $176k.
It is a welfare program for the poor.
They pay into SS just like everyone else, why wouldn't they be entitled to what they pay in??
They get a relatively small pension, but most of their retirement income is from the 401k they pay into.
Cite evidence they all do insider trading.
These funds came out of my payroll for 40yrs! It's not entitled funds it's our money!
Bravo senator! Thank you! I am not a Democrat but I’m on your side sir!
Democrats are always on the side of SS, Medicare & Medicaid & VA benefits.
Republicans are always against these programs.
This is very true what he is saying. I am 73 snd retired and collect SS . I stsrted collecting it at 62 because I needed it at that time! I have to continue working part time to be able to psy my bills , and dont have enough money to buy meat, sometimes i get to buy a little bit of ground beef. Seniors need a big raise each month to make our bills . im not well but still have to suffer each day to work to survive!!
im right with you. 62, getting sicker and older and still must work a lousy underpaid job. still cant make ends meet. im getting older, its harder to work, im terrified new admin will cut this!
Me too.
I get tired of how it's almost deliberate how they ( gov and big business) try to make it harder for for seniors, disabled and lower income folks. . The pharmacies, grocery stores, transportation help ect that used to be locally accessible, now close or move farther away adding to more costs and hardships for needy people in neighborhoods.
Food and medicine is higher also, and if you have a pet, good luck finding affordable care and supplies for them, too.
It's oppressive to think they now want to cut more funding for seniors?
Get a heart.
Shame on you.
If you've been collecting SS since age 62 and your now 73 in the 11 yrs you've collected benefits you've definitely collected more in benefits than you ever contributed to the system you actually are being paid with house money or in other words the taxes that working people are paying into the system and may never see a dime of SS you and millions of others have used up their contribution and now your taking mine You think that's fair? SS is really borrowing from Peter to pay Paul
People that do labor jobs are physically incapable of doing that type of work at that age. Nor do employers want seniors doing those jobs when they can hire younger workers for less money. Many seniors are forced into retirement at age 62.
FRA is 67 now. Otherwise you take a permanent 30% cut for the rest of your life. And now they want raise FRA to 68 or 70, so basically cutting it more the earlier you take SS.
@@dcl8175 That's disgusting.
You hit the nail on the head. If we aren't able to contribute to the economy, but only survive on the SS that we've earned, we aren't profitable for them. We aren't able to spend $50,000 on frivolous items, and up the profits for the corporations. Cut SS, and throw those who receive SS that we worked for and paid into quickly to the curb, their goal is and has been for quite a while not to take the trillions away from us and up their personal wealth. SS came out of every paycheck we received. Just think of all the people who died before retirement age and never received a penny of it. My cousin was never married, or had children, and worked for 55 yrs in jobs, and she paid into SS for those 55 years. She received the minimum SS for her last 10yrs. If the billionaires aren't making money off of us as consumers, they don't need us. They just want us to go away now as quickly as possible, because they aren't making money off of us, and at our age, cutting SS would mean death. To these Republican politicians, and corporations, they see us as a blight on the country -and more money for them. Out of sight, out of mind. Might as well be Soylent Green.
If not from work, from disability. I’m 62 and having all sorts of physical problems. I can’t work but can’t get approved for disability (which is, of course, social security).
@@TheSapphireSprit That really sucks. I didn't qualify for SSDI because "I wasn't handicapped enough.
How about let the people in the room. that is dirty. Let cameras in the room. We can't trust these people anymore!!! to write laws that don't harm us!!!
Keep up the work for American people who earned the ssi benefits. 😊
Thanks, you are a good man.
That's ME, 11K a year and if I work, they take half🤬🧨🤮
It just makes me ill thinking about the ramifications of this issue. We tried to tell them. 😢 I worked three jobs back in the 80s when President Reagan did the exact same thing. Tariffs are real dangerous.🇺🇸
Well they wanted lower gas prices and lower the cost of eggs never knowing what they got themselves into.
Trickle down economics has never worked for middle class, only the wealthy. It has created the largest wealth gap since the robber barons.
Hands off Social security
Leave our Social Security alone!!!! We paid into the fund all our working hours.....this money is ours, NOT the governments.
My husband and I are getting are house ready to put it up for sale,we are scared and dont want to move, but we wouldn't be able to afford it.its a crying shame that we have to think this way we are supposed to be happy, nor scared.
Fantastic words.. u really hit the point🙃
Thank you
Please don't take that away from the people who received it & need it to live & especially our elderly & our children. Praying for everyone🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾😢😢😢😢💔💔💔💔
Let all Politicians Live from paycheck to paycheck receiving Social Security Benefits Only there would not be a problem funding Social Security .Most Politicians is not hurting for money to live off of..
THIS!!!! THEY SHOULD EVEN TRY FOR 2 MONTHS...
SEE THEM GOING TO
FOOD BANK'S
CHURCH'S
NOT GOING TO..
DENTIST'S
DOCTOR'S........
LET THEM LIVE LIKE WE
HAVE TO.....
FIGURING OUT HOW
TO GET BY!!!!!!!!!
That's not the government money .We paid social security working hard .Don't play with our money.
Tennessee WHAT THE HECK !!! No wonder 🤔 I want to leave this state ! They hate me because I shine to bright 🌞 Do you know how heart breaking it is to not be able to help your family 💔 Or buy gifts for my grand children
I’m one of those Baby Boomers & as of last year I’ve been displaced twice & temporarily reside with a family member I should not be around at all!homeless for about a year & went through a program?for housing which taken away for wrong reason!collect a little over a $1,000. a month & I’m disabled! Homeless & disabled!! Tell me what I do now! Besides wanting to end it all ? Huh?!!
Anybody making over $176,000 doesn't have to pay into social security. Meaning the wealthiest people in this country dont contribute their fair share. Social security can be expanded to provide better benefits for the elderly if we lift this cap. WHY AREN'T WE TALKING ABOUT THIS??
Right. It's an easy fix. Remove the cap.
They're should not be a cap. Everybody pay. They're share. Everybody
Lopehole for the rich!!
TRUTH !
That isn't true. If you make over $175 K, you pay 12.4% on every dollar up to $168 K. This means they pay into Social Security a lot more than most. The rest of your comment and the responses need to be corrected. Divisive rhetoric fixes nothing.
Consider that we have never indexed Social Security for the additional years people live due to modern medical advances. Most people receive much more than they put in, which shoots your "fair share" argument in the foot. When the program started, over 30 people were paying for every individual receiving a benefit. Now, 3 people are paying in for every beneficiary. At this rate, the correct retirement age should be in the mid-70s. Is anybody going to hold off? A few might. Most likely, the rich, so not only will they have paid more than their "fair share," but they will also continue to be vilified for not sucking with money.
We aren't talking about it BECAUSE IT ISN'T A THING!! But we also aren't talking about the real issues, and we're using stupid socialist terms like "fair share" to complain about nothing.
Social security anti poverty?? 😂😂 Maybe if the politicians stop digging into SS
They aren’t digging into SS. All SS funds go towards SS.
They've been dipping into the fund for decades. It's the governments fault we are where we are. Start blaming the ones responsible. @@Dbb277-2
Why didn't more retirees vote for Kamala who would have protected their pensioms ??😳
We got screwed like you will be if you voted for Trump!
They were lied to, & bought the lie. 🙏
@sherryobar5750 they weren't lied to, they were just ignorant and dumb
@@EddieDavis-jj4xl the Republicans lied to many demographics.
Because they couldn't handle a, god forbid, woman in the white house.
Thanks 😊
Lift the cap. There’s no reason for fica to stop @ 168k.
Absolutely, raise the CAP! They should stop lying about this!
well said thank you very much
I would like to see which politicians are proposing cuts to social security by raising the age etc. The people who voted for you need to know, if their vote is bringing harm to themselves.
Good luck getting congress to do anything for retirees.
The Social Security funds I and my employers have put into “MY” SS fund better not be touched by Government officials. Period. Full Stop. It is not an insurance program. It’s forced savings I was required to take out of my earnings and it better be there when I retire.
Exactly 💪
Our system is desighned to work correctly. Its just that the designers dont play by the play book that they designed.
Yes i am an average 75 year old but the 1400. and 1900. amoumts are before meicare A ana B are taken out of that total and we then try to live on what is left.
Pay back what they took from SS already!! It’s our money!
Thank God for Rep Larson, I'm four years away from my Benefits,
But I'll be unable to afford Medical insurance or a Mortgage, and wind up homeless after all my working years, not right.....
ProtectAmerican tax payers social security take government retirement fund and put them on it and a fix will be found. No government should get a better retirement plan than the people they represent.
Cutting benefits to those who are at poverty levels in order to give it to the rich is cruel…”trickle down economics” is a scam on some of our most vulnerable who’ve worked their entire lives.
It’s just capitalism. All social programs are socialism. Americans hate it.
Thank you, Jim Larson!!! Appreciate you speaking up for us! It's frightening to think we'll lose SS. There will be millions added to the homeless if it's taken away or decreased.
Go John Lawson.We need a boost on social security.Why you have no food in my house?This is ridiculous.You know congress didn't give us a boost it says 1970 😂❤ Haven't had an increase since 1970.We need to increase in social security and we need it fast
If we raise the cap past $175,000, we could make the billionaires and millionaires pay their fair share. But of course almost every politician has big money in their ear. GET BIG MONEY OUT OF POLITICS!!!
Also veterans benefits
I want a 15% increase not 2.5 insulting increase what a joke 2.5%
Explain why you should get a 15% increase?
everyone should!
how about 30% to keep up with recent inflation?
Well If you really must know I worked 47 hard labor years my first job I was 14 growing up very poor sucks going to be hungry sometimes no heat in the winter I've never been lazy I retired from job 2023 I was there 27 years retired at 62 had to 4 hernias carpol tunnel back problems sucks to work in pain but I did my scars on my gut and my hands are my resume if they can give refugees,illegals the red carpet rolled out oh send trillions to free loading Ukraine then yes I deserve 15% not 2.5% insulting crap I've worked my ass off for 47 years and payed the price so there ya go lunger savvy
Cause I worked 47 hard labor years my scars and hands are my resume
Wish i were president. These solutions are not that hard to figure out. You just need to use common knowledge. Thinking about running for local office to get started. Have plenty of wealthy friends that think i should. Nothing against either side of the isle but everything ive been seeing is a circus. A well oiled machine of crazy people. Im almost ashamed to say that this is america. Wake up people. Peace
If you’re cutting our social security you can pay us out right. We pay into that the first day we start working. Thats decades of money I’ll be owed and expect.
Plus the approximate 50 years of interest included on the total paid to SS and Medicare by every individual.
We need term limits. We need to get these career politicians out of Washington. They have ruined everything. They are ruining our country. If we don’t do term limits, we are doomed.
Term limits would help. getting the let them in cake people out of office. Especially where the senate is concerned, they sit too easy between elections we need a pay cut system for congress and the senate to if they do a bad job running the country they lose money. get these guys off their pedestals
That is never going to happen.
In this video Mr.Larson let out a call to increase S.S. And Every month the vote for his calls were not answered ☹️
Without my social security I cannot buy food, pay my utilities, pay for my medicines, pay my taxes or anything else. And if I don't have my Medicare to take care of my medical needs then I will die. Never in my life would I have thought my senior years would be like this. How could people be so stupid to elect a government like this. I don't understand.😢
Yes! Lift the cap!!!
I believe if you work and make 10,000,000 you pay social security taxes, that’s how you fix this problem
We are going to get 2.5% increase and Medicare goes , so we get nothing
That happened when the government borrowed money from the Social Security
You take seniors monthly social security checks then you best compensate them somehow. Perhaps a lumpsum check for all they paid into the system for decades?
No more money for other countries pensions
You nailed that little heard fact!
@gingermolina8356 No more big money in politics!
Please don't be an idiot. Social Security faced a $13 trillion dollar hole for a decade begining a decade from now. Our total foreign aid, of all sorts is $63 billion excluding money that has been going to Ukraine and the money just voted this year to Israel.*. So, you're going to save maybe 5% of all the money you need by stopping all foreign aid. And in the meantime Donald Trump is giving away the money in the trust fund to wealthier retirees (that's who benefits from no taxes on Social Security, the upper middle class) and to municipal and county employees (please don't say policemen, firefighters and teachers though that is the profession of many of these employees) who have never paid into the system while they have been so employed and instead have a fat pension (you obviously don't personally know many in that category because they do!). And the plan is to privatize Social Security... make no mistake.
But first they are going to kill Medicaid expansion, which comes from the general budget and is easy to read out. And there's a reason Dr. Oz is being appointed to head CMS. He has repeatedly said he wants to turn Medicare into Medicare Advantage. Yes, he himself is going to profit immensely from that. But it's just one more reason that Trump doesn't want to have the FBI investigate it's nominees (Tulsi Gabbard couldn't get a top secret security clearance nor could Pete Hegseth) not have them sign ethics pledges (nearly half of Trump's cabinet picks in 2016-2017 had major ethical conflicts of interest.)
* Israel is usually one of the biggest recipients of foreign aid at around $3 billion, even when they aren't in essence at war.
We need an investigation 🔎 🙄
Hahahahajaha
Its already been investigated. They Have been borrowing from the Fund for 40 years and NO intention of even making a payment back to the fund. Its strait stealing from our elected official's.
Thank you, Sir, on behalf of your employers--i.e., WE THE PEOPLE!
Thank you for fighting for what we worked for. Terrible that they want hurt us after paying all of our working years.
Children that are suffering need this money yes I’m glad to hear you speak about this nobody is getting rich off there checks some people are still struggling with the check they have and they want to take that wow suffering is not a enough for them
This will be the second benchmark how I will judge this new administration. This is a non-partisan issue, if your American, retiring, disabled, born, raised. This is a disgrace from both Democrat and now Republicans. It all goes back into the US Economy, and not to some middle east or some other foreign countries.
Help the teachers repeal the windfall law that denies them soc security.
In the past Congress has borrowed from the Social Security trust funds, why don’t they pay it back?
They make Billionaires richer . And uou eant poor people live on nothing
You don't cut social security and Medicare we earned this money. Ee have to live off it. Fix the social security. Thus is what we live on. Seniirs and liw invime need our benefit
Well who did you vote for?
Thank you sir ,we need all the support possible to keep social security for those of us who earned it!
thank you mr Larson… i was losing hope…
I want Nancy Pelosi’s SS check
pelosi should be funding citizens social security and medicare
How much do you think she gets?
She has stolen enough
@@gingermolina8356 Those are just words .Please explain with facts what she has stolen? Or will you be the proverbial cricket .
How about trumps?
Please save and add more money to our social security.😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
Reform mandatory
Everyone i know is or has been cut off SSI or even SSA because of something soooooo rediculous or didn't make a ten day deadline wich is not enough time because the mail never delivered it themselves in time or delayed mail and only gave a day to send it in we need a proper time of 30 days like anywhere else would give you a time CDA welfare or management offices we need a longer timely manner to send proofs or whatever documents to SSI
SSA is my money I paid into and an entitlement and held in a trust fund. He’s talking about 2 other programs within SS.