If you were born in 1968 you turn 64 in 2032. You’ve paid into Social Security every single paycheck for over 40 years. You were promised it would be there. Social Security is projected to be insolvent by 2033. That’s not a maybe. That’s the government’s own estimate. Congress borrowed from the fund for decades. Never paid it back. Now the people who spent it are debating how to tell the people who earned it that it’s gone. Meanwhile we just approved another $800,000,000,000 defense budget. Found that money immediately. No debate. No delay. But your retirement check that you paid for your entire working life? That’s a budget problem. The government didn’t run out of money. They ran out of interest in protecting yours.