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It is also a fact that immigrants who pay in to Social Security, but will never receive any benefit, have kept the program solvent. By ending the EBE they have effectively cut the “jugular” of the program.

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Mark, and there it is: you said it plainly and clearly. They have cut the jugular. It won't take long for it to bleed out.

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I’m frightened, scarred to death. I’m 80 years old and depend on Social Security and Medicare. I have no one in Congress to represent me. Both of my Senator’s are MAGAts as is my Congressman. I quit calling because I live in TN but have a Seattle-area phone number. I doubt they listen to my messages. I write emails almost daily but seldom receive a response. I am terrified my wife - who will also turn 80 in August - and I may soon join the millions of people living on the streets without a ‘pot to piss in’

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I fully understand. I live in Iowa, 2 MAGAt senators, and congress rep. I would experience a dramatic drop in my standard of living, and might hold off homelessness for a bit. Heaven help me if I experience a health crisis, though.

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Even those of us who have Democratic Senators and Congress members have no representation when the minority is either feckless or stifled. We're being subjugated.

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Same here. Though a little younger, I am on SS and Medicare and in SC, you know I have no representation. At least half the country has no voice. Terrifying times.

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My wife and I are in our late 60s. We're angry and have no representation, as we live in Coward Hawley's district.

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I commented before seeing your earlier comment.

This also "complements" closure of local service offices, like the one in Grand Junction, Colorado, that was already serving a large geographical area.

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