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Your missing the fact that the average Tea Partier supports Medicare, SS, Defense Spending, and Medicaid as it applies to seniors. This is hardly small government. The Tea Party is taking us down the road to bankruptcy. Ever heard of a Tea Partier calling for cuts to Medicare?? You never have and you never will. Same with Defense and SS.
Odanny if your against people collecting the benefits they have paid for then the obvious solution is ramp down SS over the next century. That is how long it would take unless the younger generation is willing to pay into it and not take a dime.
I think the 'kid' is running a scam. He's not a kid at all.
I worked 34 years and now am on SS and Medicare. I deserve both.
If you want to talk about reform that's all well and good but don't forget that millions are still paying in and expecting a return on their money.
You have to love the Tea Party for their willingness to cut off Snap, ACA, Schip, EITC, School Lunches while they schedule their knee, hip, triple bypass, tranplants and stay in intensive care at $10,000 per day.. who said the Tea Party doesnt have a sense of humor??
So a program they paid into, by your definition they don't get to use? Why?
1.) It takes an unusually sick, fanatical breed of liberal to point to a group of people who have had their savings and resources taken from them by force for year after year, and who are determined to get it back....
....and try to pretend that their desire to get at least some of it back, constitutes "approval" of the thefts in the first place!
(little borregokid has had this pointed out to him many times, but seems impervious to learning. He just abandons the thread, waits a few days for people to forget that his fibs have already been debunked, and then starts a new thread and presents the same thing again as "fact". He's been doing it for months now)
I am Canadian and even I know that much. It truly amazes me how many Americans really don't seem to understand the concept.
Using "tea party" and "Republican" interchangeably is just as ignorant as using "welfare recipient" and "Liberal" interchangeably. One has precious little to do with the other.
On another note, I really don't get the contempt the Tea Party brings out in the rabid left. From what I understand, they want little more than less government interference in their lives, less involvement in foreign wars and a stronger adherence to the principals of the U.S. Constitution. Would these things not improve the life of the average American or am I missing something here?
The US has a government propaganda machine formerly known as the free press. They use their resources to create politically expedient propaganda for the Obama administration. Misinformation and projectioism are their best weapons. An uninformed and unaware population plays right into their hands.
The media tried to create a wall st protest movement and even named them the 99% as if they represented 99% of the US population. When that group went violent eveyone backed away. All was not lost as the documented violence commited by the WSPs was projected upon the t-party. projectionism is an effective startegy used by Dems and only possible with the aid of the media and lack of awareness by the citizens.
It is the tolerance of institutional government waste that deprives the needy of help. Somehow the magnitude of the legacy waste is lost on rabid political advocates who chirp and bark at shadows, satisfied to make political hay at the sacrifice of those they pretend to help.
If young people would buy smaller houses they could buy their own food for their children like I did. I also have paid more into Medicare than I have ever used.
Statistically, most will eventually use more than they paid into Medicare.
Over a lifetime, an average male would have “earned” through payroll taxes only about one-third of their Medicare benefits.
From its inception, Medicare relied on general revenues and deficit spending to make ends meet.
Somewhere along the way, one would have thought it made some sense to peg Medicare Payroll deductions to medical inflation. The last time Medicare payroll taxes increased was 28 years ago.
The baby boom is the first generation to have paid into Medicare their entire working lives. Their contributions helped to fund the shortfall of the prior generations. The sheer size of the aging baby boom will force changes:
Benefits capped at contribution rates on a means tested a basis.
Congress to enable Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices and mobile medical devices.
Death with dignity will be an option.
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