McSweeney's Meg Reid on "My Mother-in-Law Wouldn't Complain If She Didn't Get Her Social Security Check, Because She Would Be Dead":
" Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick suggested this week that only ‘fraudsters’ would complain about missing a monthly Social Security check, and that most people wouldn’t mind if the government simply skipped a payment. — Axios
- - -"People are overreacting that the Trump administration’s planned overhauls of the Social Security Administration could lead to delayed or missed Social Security payments and cause senior citizens hardship. Take my ninety-four-year-old mother-in-law, Barbara—if her check didn’t come as scheduled, she wouldn’t even complain—because she would soon be dead.
"Unlike most older people in this country, Barbara doesn’t sit around defrauding the American taxpayer—namely, herself, who paid Social Security taxes her whole life—by living on an income so fixed that if her Social Security check was even a few days delayed it would cause bills to go unpaid, late fees to be assessed, and her entire financial future to depend on the outcome of Wheel of Fortune’s My$tery Wedge 10K Giveaway..."
Billionaire bunghole Lutnick, saying the quiet part loud, deserving all the mockery the world has to offer.
(Photo: Two billionaire bungholes who never had to work for a living /Samuel Corum, Sipa, Bloomberg)
It is a big concern for me. I am not 93 years old and I don't have Howard Lutnick waiting for me to die.
ReplyDeleteRight there with you Rich.
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