Other people getting assistance too don't take away anything from your friend at all. If you want to be angry, be angry about your government spending trillions for the military and billionaires, not about the weakest parts of society.

It doesn't "take away", but if your employer paid you $x and you were struggling, and then they gave the same $x or more to people hanging out in the parking lot, you would probably see that as a personal insult.

That's a bit disingenuous, though; for that analogy to work, it would be the employer paying you, with a tenure of 40 years, the same shit salary as the new hire. And I get how frustrating that may feel, but it's still not the new hire's fault, but your boss's.

Bottom line, both of you are getting a shit salary while the C-Suite and their investor friends rake in a multiple of your annual salary every month.

That's not a good analogy because you had to work and contribute to get your SS, while the new illegal has money spent on him for basically breaking the law and sneaking into the country over overstaying his visa.

Social Security is the number 1 line item accounting for over 22% of the federal budget.

For now. Expect that to be overtaken by debt servicing in the not too distant future.