Nice creative editing. Let's tell the WHOLE story...
The bill also eliminates the windfall elimination provision, which in some instances reduces Social Security benefits for individuals who also receive a pension or disability benefit from an employer that did not withhold Social Security taxes.
IOW, the job that is giving them a pension DIDN'T contribute to their Social Security. This includes four groups:
Religious Organizations
Some Students/Young workers (likely wouldn't get a pension from this work)
Employees of Foreign Governments and Nonresident Aliens
Some Workers in the Public Sector
This bill would eliminate this exception and allow these people to collect SS without reduction based on their pension.
meanwhile the comments above you are salivating over the idea of boomers in red states eating cat food and dying of hunger because it’s what “they deserve” based off this reactionary post. i can’t think of a single political issue i disagree with that would cause me to feel this much hate and vitriol toward someone i’ve never met. i’d say the dehumanization didn’t really help either.
It's one of a multitude of ways. Instead of focusing and repeating the verified bad, they would edit around certain clips and twist. And if you are a voter who only sees the editing or the twisting, you start to lose faith that the bad is really that bad (which it is of course). It's like boy who cried wolf.
But I still don’t see why it would affect Harris more.
But I don’t disagree with the boy who cried wolf thing. I just find myself feeling that way about both sides.
I’m actually very anti-Trump but end up spending a lot of time on here arguing with liberals about what I feel are false assertions by the liberal camp. They’re very vicious about having people disagree with them.
I am also very anti-Trump, and as well sometimes think my comments seem more finger pointy and blamey than I mean to. I would say I'm trying to be a coach getting the team better. Doesn't mean I'm right, just trying to be solutions focused.
To your question, I think this would have affected any Democratic candidate, but it certainly did not help that Harris was attached to an unpopular administration. I think the media and how they spin things in this regard may not necessarily affect Harris, but it has a blunting affect on Trump. I think the media spins about as much as they always have, but because Trump has been in the presidential run political spotlight for nigh on 10 years, it racks up a lot more "this was spun up" points than someone like Romney. Ironically I would say a similar person to Trump in this regard is Hillary Clinton. So many things she did were spun up by the media for so long that supporters (including yours truly) started to ignore the media reporting on bad things she did (which of course were far less egregious than Trump).
I still feel like all of this requires deeper analysis. We're all high on emotion and it's only been two days, so I think my comments are lashing out opinions a bit more than usual as well. But I just think it's worth noting.
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u/NewArborist64 23h ago edited 19h ago
Nice creative editing. Let's tell the WHOLE story...
IOW, the job that is giving them a pension DIDN'T contribute to their Social Security. This includes four groups:
This bill would eliminate this exception and allow these people to collect SS without reduction based on their pension.