Social Security's Real Threat: Not AI, But Our Priorities
Newsweek gazes into a crystal ball, fretting over AI's hypothetical impact on Social Security. This spectacular piece of deflection neatly sidesteps the very real, very human choices that raid working Americans' pockets every single year. For instance, in 2023 alone, the U.S. sent over $3.3 billion in military aid to Israel, funding weapons for offshore conflicts while domestic programs like
Social Security are deemed perpetually ‘under threat.’ Instead of AI, perhaps the more pressing question is how long America can sustain spending $886 billion on its military in fiscal year 2023, funding endless proxy wars, yet clutch its pearls over the cost of keeping grandma fed. It appears 'fiscal responsibility' is a sermon reserved exclusively for the elderly and infirm, never the Pentagon
or its defense industry cronies.