I turn 65 tomorrow

[Danmel]

Perhaps the worst year since 1934 to reach this milestone. Retirement savings tanking, social security and Medicare threatened. And now tariffs that will basically amount to a 10% pay cut.
Gonna need a lot of wine.

[bronxiteforever]

1. Congratulations on making 65! I agree

the rest is horrible except the wine!

[SheltieLover]

2. Have a wonderful 65th!

[madaboutharry]

3. Happy Birthday, Danmel.

There isn't anything I can think of that could make anyone feel better, these are truly terrible times.

I hope you have a good day and a happy birthday.

[EYESORE 9001]

4. My wife turns 65 this year

Due to the fact that it could end at the drop of a hat, she decided to apply for SS before full retirement age. We’ve been waiting two months now for verification of her income over the years. I can’t wait to see what happens after she applies for Medicare later this year.

[Meowmee]

5. Happy B day 🎂😀

I know it is frightening and awful… I hope something happens to turn it all around 🤗

[Tickle]

6. Medicare is not threatened

neither is your SS. All checks have been on time. I'm worried about my 401k like you. Let's hope at some point it balances out profitable.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. If SS isn't threatened then wth is muskrat doing messing around with it?

I hope you're correct.

[Tickle]

12. According to musk, believe him

or not, he's looking for fraud. That's what my lawyer told me. As long as you didn't lie to SS you'll be fine. I guess we'll just wait and see.

[LuckyCharms]

13. Regardless of your lawyer's opinion...

I have my own opinion based on my observations.

If Musk is looking for fraud, why are they closing SS field offices?

If Musk is looking for fraud, why are they firing SS staff?

If Musk is looking for fraud, why is he looking at re-writing millions of lines of code from a perfectly working COBOL based program for SS?

What they are doing is trying to kill, or at least cripple Social Security by making it unusable without doing a lot of work and suffering a lot of inconvenience.

[Tickle]

14. When did you lose your SS? NT

[LuckyCharms]

15. I didn't say I did, did I?

[Tickle]

17. Do you get a lesser amount now?

[LuckyCharms]

19. No, do you?

[Tickle]

20. No, my checks are on

time and sometimes a few days before my third Wednesday. I'm not going to spend my remaining days, hopefully years, worrying about things that haven't happened. The other side is not going to remove SS. They would never win an election again. most of their supporters are on SS. There's lots to worry about, but SS isn't one of them

[LuckyCharms]

21. Oh.

[Tickle]

16. Cobol 😂😂😂

Didn't Cobol go away in the 80s?

[LuckyCharms]

18. You're interesting...

Keep up the good work.

[surfered]

7. 🍷 works for me

[Hotler]

9. Just for you.

[yardwork]

10. Happy birthday!

[LiberalLoner]

11. Happy birthday to you, in spite of all the bad stuff. May sanity be returned to the US soon.