# Social Security: I hate it when there’s a kernel of truth from the Republican opposition **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 9, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-security-i-hate-it-when-there-s-a-kernel-of-truth-from-the-republican-opposition/980946 "2023-03-09T20:09:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 28
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-security-i-hate-it-when-there-s-a-kernel-of-truth-from-the-republican-opposition/980946/28 "2023-03-10T02:48:41Z")
Here is a 6-month old thread on much the same topic which was getting a lot of traction in late Feb, just 2 weeks ago. > [@How should we "save" Social Security?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-we-save-social-security/973567): > > Discourse isn’t showing me a thread on this unless you go back to 2005, so I think a new topic might be worthwhile compared to resurrecting such an old thread. Social Security is now doing better than it was before the pandemic. It’s now scheduled to go another year before benefits will have to be cut, which will still be around 10-15 years. I don’t think either party really wants to be in power once the trust fund runs out of money, but neither do they want to be the ones to bite the bullet … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-security-i-hate-it-when-there-s-a-kernel-of-truth-from-the-republican-opposition/980946)._