They just do it here because they don't care. They get a their pensions no matter what.
You mean the Senators and Congressmen right?
They have hated SS forever since it was founded when FDR set it up from the very beginning. People had NOTHING! poorer that dirt, into their 70's and up, nothing to rely on, worked until they dropped. Whether they could work or not, crippled, old age etc. hurting etc. And during the great depression, of all things.
So, capitalism, fails, falls apart, laying in the ditch, due to the early 20th Cen. American Robber Barons, Wall St. goes bust! People jumping off skyscrapers, soup lines, the grapes of wrath, entire country wandering the streets in search of work and food, banks repo-ing houses, people hoping trains trying to get from one end to the country to another to pick fruit, anything!
Finally, then those 2 socialist parties, and that commie party, have a meeting with FDR at the White House, and told him, "you have our vote, our support 100%, but if something is done quickly in reasonable time, some of the party is planning a great uprising across the country, and they do mean business. They just want the things they voted for when they voted for you. He told them don't hold the phone, I have a big meeting coming up with answer on this, just don't do anything like that. What these guys were promising would have made what we saw about a week ago in Washington even look like a picnic, it would have been all over the country.
So, as we know, FDR had that big meeting with those Robber Barons who drained the system, and told them what was coming with out a doubt, IF they didn't put back, and create new programs for the nation. Just give him the money, and he would do the rest and be responsible for it. Or else, there would be nothing left in the end for anyone especially them! Because, in rubble, he would have to strike the US dollar dead, and start reprinting new money, on top of the situation to restart everything in all likelihood.
That got their attention.
Along with the Unions (CIO).
We don't have that today.
Which explains a good reason why were in so much trouble. And, Capitalism is broken again. No doubt about it. And, do you hear Joe calling for the federal jobs program or the unfreezing of federal hiring even? I ain't heard shit.