Republican Senator Needs New Socks After Aligning With Elizabeth Warren

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Americans are about to get a crash course in the financial disaster that is Social Security. It’s not going to be an easy A.

Part of the course will be reading fiction from Social Security’s long-time defenders like AARP, and nutty proposed remedies from well-meaning amateurs. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Moreno (R-OH) recently offered an excellent example of the latter, which we’ll come back to shortly. (RELATED: Why Is Medicaid Paying So Much For The Same Ambulance Ride?)

The recent Social Security Trustees’ Report triggered the current mini-flurry of interest. The report indicates Social Security’s Trust Fund will be depleted by 2032, at which time benefits will be cut 22%.

One might notice the paucity of news coverage of such an impending calamity. Part of the reason is that Donald Trump can’t be blamed, which takes all the fun out it for much of the media.

But mostly the silence is because it’s not news. The Trustees’ have issued their warnings for decades.

One irony from the depletion timeline is that senators elected in 2026 will soon sense they won the booby prize as they’ll have to deal with this problem, as will whoever wins the White House in 2028.  Some congressmen will probably retire first. Joke’s on you, folks.

How did we get into this mess? It’s not complicated. The programmatic explanation can take many somewhat........

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