Imagine a bus, 68 people on the bus. A double-decker, say, if you can’t fit them all. Together, all the people on the bus collect a million five-hundred thousand a year ($1,500,000). If you had 1,000 buses, that’s 68,000 people. They’re getting a billion five a year. Now do a factor more. A million buses. 68 million people. Collecting a trillion five a year together.
That’s the US social security system in 2024.
People like to make noises about whether the system will be there in the future, or what you get in your seat when you qualify. But few people appreciate exactly how many beneficiaries collect a check. A million double-decker buses full. (Two million if you have to use the standard, 34 seat bus.) If the bus people weren’t getting their checks sent to them, in amounts promised, any given year, that’s a lot of buses to descend on Congress.
And if, by some strange twist, the money ever got cut without protest, you’d still want your seat on the bus.
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