{"id":5301,"date":"2023-04-16T20:20:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T02:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=5301"},"modified":"2023-04-16T20:20:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T02:20:13","slug":"social-security-in-dire-straits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=5301","title":{"rendered":"Social Security in Dire Straits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3iqn5\" data-offset-key=\"bqs3e-0-0\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"bqs3e-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bqs3e-0-0\">&#8220;It gets worse. A big part of this started in 1964, when the Imperial City decided to move Social Security \u201cTrust Fund\u201d receipts into the general fund. This meant that our elected officials were free to spend that money, as they usually do, to buy votes, and that since then the Social Security \u201cTrust Fund\u201d has not existed; it\u2019s a box full of IOUs from a government that is thirty-two trillion dollars in debt. In case you\u2019re wondering, that\u2019s about a quarter-million dollars per taxpayer.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3iqn5\" data-offset-key=\"j7k1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"j7k1-0-0\"><span class=\"ig9Cs\" data-offset-key=\"j7k1-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"j7k1-0-0\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frombearcreek.com\/rule-five-social-security-friday\/\">Rule Five Social Security Friday<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It gets worse. A big part of this started in 1964, when the Imperial City decided to move Social Security \u201cTrust Fund\u201d receipts into the general fund. This meant that our elected officials were free to spend that money, as they usually do, to buy votes, and that since then the Social Security \u201cTrust Fund\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=5301\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social Security in Dire Straits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,48,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-greedy-liberals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5302,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions\/5302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}