@Rocket_Pool is voting to redirect newly minted $RPL toward protocol funding ahead of Saturn 2, its next major upgrade. The reason is a funding shortfall. The decline in $RPL's price squeezed the protocol's budget, and its grants committee has already gone through multiple rounds of spending cuts. Before Saturn 2: - node operators' share of new $RPL falls from 70% to 50% - protocol funding rises from 27.5% to 47.5%, split 30% to incentives, 40% to grants, and 30% to a reserve treasury - the oracle DAO stays at 2.5% After Saturn 2: - node operator $RPL rewards end entirely - protocol funding takes 95%, the oracle DAO 5% - annual inflation is set at 2.5% instead of the previously planned 1.5% "Desperate times," one voter wrote, citing urgent funding for Saturn 2 work, the rescue node, Chainlink, and support. 36 votes are in, all For at 9,157 voting power, with zero Against or Abstain. Still below the 10,035 quorum; passing requires a 75% supermajority. Voting closes June 19th at 2:50am UTC. Proposal: snapshot.box/#/s:rocketpool-…

The new Social Security Trustees report shows that the program's shortfall is getting closer. Why? Trump's tax breaks for the rich cut into Social Security's revenue. Experts say it moved the depletion date up by SIX MONTHS. We are being scammed.

Social Security's retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than last year's projections, according to an annual report released Tuesday. to.pbs.org/4uqGvBY

This is bullshit. If Social Security is truly in crisis, why did the GOP just blow a massive hole in its funding with the "Big Beautiful Bill"? That law showers the top 1% with an average tax cut of $66,000, over $100,000 for the wealthiest in states like Texas, while the bill's $500 billion price tag adds trillions to the national debt. If they can afford to give billionaires a massive break, they can afford to protect the system we all paid into. And let's be clear: workers have been paying into Social Security their entire lives. The fund is on solid ground for decades, but if left untreated, it's projected to be depleted by 2032. This would trigger a 22% across-the-board cut to benefits. The solvency date moved up by a year, in part, because Republican policies have accelerated the shortfall. Now Mike Johnson has been caught on tape saying that entitlement programs "have to be adjusted and fixed" and that Republicans "have a plan to do that next year." His own words. So here's what's happening: the GOP cut revenue for the rich, worsened Social Security's timeline, and now wants to fix the "problem" they helped create, by slashing the benefits we were promised. They aren't trying to save the system. They are manufacturing a crisis to justify dismantling it, all while working for the top 1%. We paid into this. We are not asking for a handout. We are asking for what we earned.

San José council unanimously passes budget plan to fill $50.3 million shortfall — in large part by drawing down budget reserve fund. Budget includes $1M in new funding for immigrant support services.

That’s not true. In the UK, the mortgage holder is responsible for the shortfall between selling price and the mortgage amount. The bank can and will chase you through the courts for it or sell the debt on to debt collectors who will hound you.

Also WaPo owner Jeff Bezos’s policies and political contributions are contributing to this shortfall.

You’re contradicting yourself. If it’s an earned benefit, the high-income individuals would get back what they paid in on average. They don’t. Yet you want to jack up their taxes even more to cover everyone else’s shortfall. That’s not an earned benefit. That’s redistribution.

Spokane County, Washington State $30 Million Dollar Budget Shortfall for 2027 @MattHawkins4Aud

Facing a projected $30 million budget shortfall in 2027, Spokane County commissioners are exploring a sales tax increase that could be imposed without voter approval under a state law passed last year. Read more: thecentersquare.com/washingt…

🚨FULL ANALYSIS of the 2026 Medicare Trustees' Report ⤵️ The #Medicare Trustees released their annual report today, showing: ➡️Medicare's HI trust fund will be insolvent in seven years in 2033, when today's 58-year-olds become eligible for the program ➡️At insolvency, the HI trust fund requires an automatic 11% spending cut, reducing access to care ➡️The HI trust fund faces a large shortfall of 0.56% of payroll ➡️Medicare costs continue to rise rapidly, from 4.1% of GDP today to 6.5% of GDP by 2050 ➡️The program's fiscal outlook has worsened since last year with the shortfall increasing by 33% ➡️Under an alternative scenario, Medicare spending will rise much faster and the shortfall will grow much larger The large amount of waste in Medicare provides opportunity to lower costs for government and beneficiaries alike, and policymakers should act now on common-sense reforms and trust fund solutions. Learn more in the full report linked below.

No money to fund a coming shortfall in Social Security or to provide universal healthcare but plenty for an army of fascist thugs

🚨FULL ANALYSIS of the 2026 Social Security Trustees' Report ⤵️ The Trustees today projected that #SocialSecurity: ➡️Is only six years from insolvency in 2032, when today's youngest retirees turn 68 ➡️Would face an automatic 22% benefit cut at insolvency ➡️Faces a large actuarial shortfall of 4.42% of payroll ➡️Has a substantially worsened financial outlook, with a 16% larger solvency gap compared to last year ➡️Urgently needs #TrustFundSolutions ⏳Fortunately, there is still time for policymakers to enact pro-growth solutions that protect the program long-term – but time is running out. Learn more in the linked report below.

@TheKouk out here spinning this delusional propaganda by a partisan hack desperately polishing a turd. The ABS net dwelling stock rose by 54,200 in the March 2026 quarter to 11.495 million. That’s not “new dwelling supply rocketing.” It’s the net change after demolitions, conversions, and losses, the same boring modest increment we’ve seen for years. Koukoulas knows this; he’s just gaslighting renters and young Australians getting absolutely screwed. Reality check, you economic cheerleader: • The National Housing Accord demands 1.2 million new homes over 5 years (~240,000 completions/year). After the first ~5 quarters: only ~219,000 completed. That’s a pathetic pace, already forecasting a shortfall of 200,000–262,000 homes. • Completions remain stuck near 12-year lows, nowhere near what’s needed while population (fueled by Labor’s migration binge) explodes. Approvals and commencements have some modest upticks but are volatile and lagging, April 2026 approvals even fell 3.4%. Builders are going broke, costs are high, red tape chokes everything. Your “it’ll get close” cope is laughable. Independent forecasts say the government will miss badly, and dwelling values are still surging (up 2.5% in the quarter alone to record levels). Rents are punishing, first-home buyers are locked out, and young people are stuck in sharehouses or with mum. This isn’t “supply rocketing”, it’s a structural failure dressed up as victory by regime mouthpieces. Stop lying with selective net stock stats while ignoring the completions disaster and policy incompetence driving it. The housing crisis is real, and spin like this makes it worse for everyone except your political mates. Total 🫏🤡 you are!!

This is classic Wyden blowing smoke up your ass. He take a real fiscal problem, strips the context, and turns it into Republicans want to kill seniors for cheap votes. Both parties have kicked this can down the road while the debt piles up. Pretending one side is the boogeyman while the programs barrel toward insolvency is exactly why nothing gets fixed. America's not stupid,DIPSHIT. People see the $186B in improper payments and the long-term shortfall reports. Address the actual problems instead of lighting your hair on fire for headlines. The smoke and mirrors routine is getting old.

The Social Security 75-year shortfall got 16% larger in today's report. More than a quarter of that increase was Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill. Another third was immigration changes: removing people who pay into Social Security and have more children

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has not conducted a comprehensive hospital cost report audit since 2005. Despite possessing historical pricing data derived from claims and billing records, CMS simultaneously functions as the industry’s price floor, suppressing reimbursement rates and systematically eroding Relative Value Units for the clinicians who deliver direct patient care. Compounding this, CMS continues to permit Safe Harbor protections for GPOs and other intermediaries whose fee structures demonstrably distort market pricing, and in doing so, artificially inflate the cost of care events that are subsequently captured on the very cost reports CMS fails to audit. This is not a coincidence; it is a self-reinforcing regulatory blind spot. The practical consequence is a compliance framework with no coherent anchor. If CMS neither audits cost reports nor corrects the distorted pricing inputs that populate them, providers are left without a meaningful standard against which to measure compliance. The question is not whether hospitals are complying, it is: complying with what, exactly? Finally, CMS’s chronic underpayment of Medicare cases represents an estimated $130 billion annual shortfall to the healthcare delivery system, a figure that does not reflect fiscal discipline, but rather cost-shifting onto providers, patients, and taxpayers through mechanisms CMS itself has declined to examine. Put me in charge and it gets fixed. 😂

That won't cover the entire shortfall and it'll be very difficult to get that passed anyway. So cuts to benefits would have to happen regardless. The question is how much. Considering that SSA recipients are already the richest age group, it makes sense to cut benefits.

Behavioral constraints left unaddressed have no biological workaround. If that behavior is directly involved in my health the same negative-outcome signal keeps firing. The problem compounds when the survival mechanisms themselves — ANS functions governing threat, protection, avoidance, recovery, growth, reproduction, feeding, etc. — are further impaired. Signal gain on an already negative loop increases. Physically moving at our sweet spot (>10 hrs/week) and eating what makes us feel best long-term makes it difficult to consume enough food in this case. The reverse — calorie restriction paired with movement limitation — is the ironic mistake, and it is not symmetrical. Mechanical loading is what preserves muscle, strength, and aerobic capacity under an energy deficit. Remove the loading and keep the deficit, and the same shortfall now lands directly on tissue, with nothing buffering it. You lose the very capacity you would need to climb back out, and the metabolic system downshifts to defend (survival) what is left. Doing the opposite and expecting no consequence misreads which variable was protecting you. Again, there is no biological workaround for a behavior constraint.