PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP AND HIS ASSOCIATE BILLIONAIRES, KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY SOCIAL SECURITY!
I have been paying into social security since 1954, worked in a super market during high school, fourteen years in a steel mill, seven years in a fab shop, twenty years as a structural Ironworker, eleven years as a welding and fab inspector, in other words I am a proud blue-collar American.
The question; is social security unsustainable in its’ present condition? Yes, it is but, what you and all of the “public servants” we elect or hire ignore is so are public servants’ pensions.
In the thirties FDR set up social security for we peasants and at the same time, a much better pension for public servants, the very people who are charged with insuring equal treatment from the hands of government. Obsessed by greed, these tax-parasites have failed miserably.
California and the federal government are the gold standard in exploiting the taxpayer. One example of many would be Fauci who reportedly gets over $700,000 pension, somewhat more equal than you or me.
Some of our “public servants” in the news lately, New Orleans Police Chief, Kirkpatrick gets paid $357,943 per year, California also in the news, Los Angeles Mayor Bass gets $300,154, L. A. Fire Chief, Kristin Crowley made $439,772 in 2023, San Francisco Mayor, Daniel Lurie is paid $383,760. And all of this extorted from we the people who average $65,000 a year and in most cases with no pension. It takes 25 private sector jobs to fund one government job. With us being $35 trillion in debt, maybe we should start the cuts with the tax-parasites who put us in this position, just saying.
We the people should never be forced to pay our public servants more to do nothing than we can make working and providing for our families. All public servants up to and including the President should have pensions limited to the average income of we the people. About $65K. the same people we pay to insure equal treatment from the government are the same people that is exploiting us. According to Stanford University, CalPers is $1 trillion underfunded, and that is only one state out of 50 plus the federal government. And this dos not address the schools that are failing and subverted by socialists.
Jim Davis
The Blue-collar Scholar
Prescott, AZ