GOPer Tells All You Lazy Gits To 'Get Off Social Security' And Go Back To Work

[turbinetree]

Democrats need to use this for an ad.

By Conover Kennard — June 10, 2025

When President Joe Biden gave his State of the Union address in 2023, Republicans booed him when he warned that some in their party wants to sunset Medicare and Social Security. Republicans were outraged, so Handsome Old Joe said, "So folks, as we all apparently agree, Social Security and Medicare is off the books now, right?"

That didn't last long since Republicans, as Biden said, are champing at the bit to gut our country's safety nets. Georgia GOP Rep. Mike Collins said in an interview on XTRA 106.3 that people must "get off of Medicaid, get off of social security, get back into the workforce."

Collins lied, saying that revenue can be increased by "lowering taxes and making them more advantageous for people to work and to get off of Medicaid, get off of Social Security, get back into the workforce."

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/goper-tells-all-you-lazy-gits-get-social

Hey Collins did your drivers in your trucking company have lets say social security tax taken out of there pay checks and did you also contribute to there social security tax like your suppose to do under federal law.......since your fleet operation is 100 trucks and 150 trailers in fact you have to ask your drivers if they have a social security card right asshole...............

https://collinstrucking.com/faq/

https://collinstrucking.com/drivers/

[patphil]

1. Rep. Mike Collins is totally ignorant of how Social Security works.

Currently, the minimum retirement age for Social Security is 62, with reduced benefits; full benefits if you work to age 67.
If you retired and received Social Security at age 62, you can earn up to $23,400 of additional income and not have your benefit reduced. After that, there's a formula for reducing your benefit as your additional income goes up.
However, once you reach age 67, you get the full amount of Social Security benefit you're entitled to, no matter what you earn from any job you have.
There is no benefit to "get off Social Security and get back to work", because in most cases that won't change the amount of money you're receiving from Social Security.

In other words, you can get BOTH your Social Security check and your paycheck from your job.
This is the case since you and any employer you had over the course of your entire adult life both paid into the fund. That money is yours, and you have a right to get it, no matter what other income you have after retirement.

So, even an idiot like Mike Collins can get his full Social Security, and a government paycheck if he manages to keep his job as a Representative past age 67. That'd be another 10 years for him.
God help us if ignorant people like him can keep their seat in the House for that long.

[haele]

4. Corporate types or folks with Pensions can often retire

At 55 or 60, not worrying about Social Security because they have investments - stocks, CDs, bonds, annuities, and/or a hefty pension...
Mike Collins doesn't have to worry about his body wearing out at 60, working in excruciating pain just to maintain the medical coverage so he continue to keep a roof over his head, pay the basic utilities and one or two meals a day.

[patphil]

5. Mike Collins' net worth is over $16 million.

With his current salary of at least $174,000, he'll get a good pension if he keeps his job until age 67. Add in all the money he has from investments and employment prior to being a Congressman, and he's going to do just fine.
Fact is, he'll have money coming out his butt hole.
Social Security will be just a small percent of his total retirement income.
So he don't give a shit about people struggling to pay their bills.

We have far too many rich people in government.

[Norbert]

2. Many of my friends are retired an have no plans on working

They will emphatically tell these clowns to take a flying f*ck.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. As soon as Collins and all the other GOPers who voted for the BBB agree to

decline their government retirements

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. Fuck no! I am NOT going back into the workforce!

Now that my husband has passed, he made sure I was able to live comfortably for the rest of my life, continue on with my Custom Sewing/Alterations business, etc. At 73, I have NO plans to re-enter the work force. I am in relatively good health with some vision issues that prevent me from driving. I watch what I eat, exercise, watch what I spend, etc. Mine and my late husband's SS and Medicare were earned from our respective working days.

Nor do I doubt that Seniors are anxious to re-enter the work force, given many have health issues that prevent them from working. Could it be the shitty, low paying jobs immigrants were doing are now open and need to be filled as ICE finds people and deports them without due process?

Inquiring minds would like to know.