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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA
Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 08:57:21 -0700
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On Fri, 10 May 2024 15:16:12 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 5/10/2024 1:46 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
>>> For those who are interested in the future long term financial
>>> apocalypse of the USA
>>=20
>> More dystopian fiction.   Talk about depressing.
>
>Yup, just like reality.
>
>USA Social Security sent me a letter the other day and said that if I=20
>wait until I am 67 to start taking SS, they will give me $4,000/month.=20
>That is an amazing number.  I am wondering that they are going to send a=
=20
>hit man instead, much cheaper.

Before I retired, I referred to such letters as "the annual lie". But
when I created a spreadsheet to compute what the benefit should be ...
I found that the letters were pretty darn accurate.

>Supposedly Social Security and Medicare are going to hit $2 trillion /=20
>year each in 2030.  That is an incredible amount of money.

That's two different things, not functionally linked to each other,
but of course you knew that.

A trillion here, a trillion there -- pretty soon you're talking about
/real/ money.

It's all a matter of perspective. And longevity. And inflation. And
Congress (both parties, BTW).
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"