Social Security Needs 'Reform,' But Not Your Retirement
"To reform and protect Social Security," writes The Hill , we need new public trustees to ensure stable funding. A lovely thought, one might say, if our nation's financial woes were a simple matter of administrative oversight. Curiously, this "reform" never seems to involve redirecting the staggering sums poured into military aid for overseas conflicts – for instance, the $14.5 billion recently
allocated to Israel (HR 815, 2023) without so much as a peep about affordability. It's almost as if 'fiscal responsibility' is a concept only applied to programs benefiting the American public, not to geopolitical ventures. We perpetually hear about the looming threat to Social Security, yet never about the 'threat' posed by continually siphoning billions from the federal budget for foreign wars
and defense contractors, many of whom have their own lucrative lobbying arms in D.C. (How many 'trustees' would it take to question that balance?). Perhaps the real 'reform' isn't in appointing new administrators, but in asking why essential domestic programs are forever on the chopping block while the military-industrial complex's ledger remains untouchable.