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There is absolutely no way we can keep going with Medicaid the way it is. That program encourages people to breed who have no ability to provide for their children and is encouraging the sky high population increases we now see - and it's a fast growing poverty class.
Medicaid doesn't require that the recipients every contributed a dime. In some places in this country now, more children are born into Medicaid families than to taxpayers, and the Medicaid types are growing in numbers at extremely high rates also in part to uncontrolled immigration. This simply is not sustainable.
There is absolutely no way we can keep going with Medicaid the way it is. That program encourages people to breed who have no ability to provide for their children and is encouraging the sky high population increases we now see - and it's a fast growing poverty class.
Medicaid doesn't require that the recipients every contributed a dime. In some places in this country now, more children are born into Medicaid families than to taxpayers, and the Medicaid types are growing in numbers at extremely high rates also in part to uncontrolled immigration. This simply is not sustainable.
This wasn't imagined when it was created in the 1930s....thus the trouble we are in.
Cut the federal workforce by a third and consolidate all redudancy. Cut military spending in half. End military operations in Iraq & Afghanistan and send all of those troops to the US/Mexico border that they would patrol as strictly as a prison wall. Cut federal subsidies to billion dollar companies and invest that money into small businesses and vocational training.
Lastly, adopt strict a pay-as-you-go spending policy. No new bonds. Period.
Idealistic and unrealistic-I know. But that's what I would do.
What a shock. Everyone wants their's. Not surprising since there are an awful lot of people not willing to give up their cable tv, $300/month car payments, etc....while having thousands of dollars in debt.
At some point you have to say we've just spent enough. We can do it now willingly...or later when we have to. It'll be easier to do it now.
This wasn't imagined when it was created in the 1930s....thus the trouble we are in.
Yes, that's the whole problem. The USA could take care of it's own people but that very massive increases in poverty have a whole lot to do with wild immigration rates and the third world nation's impoverished coming here to cash in on our welfare programs.
We'll see American citizens cut before anything is done about those coming here illegally cut, and it's the illegal population having more children than any American group.
And immigration levels were up in 2010 -- nevermind the high unemployment rates, definitely not all come to work. One baby born here and they never really have to worry about work again, and it's the taxpayers who will support them the rest of their days.
Immigration is one reason Medicaid spending is growing by leaps and bounds, there are no limits on this program, unlike Medicare where the recipients paid in and must be over a certain age, there is a natural control how many can be on Medicare, absolutely no control over Medicaid growth rates since all it takes is to get into this country, give birth.
Thats fine, but I asked for a list of what you see as the largest entitlement programs, so we can discuss why people are opposed to it.
I don't know what the largest entitlement programs are moneywise.
We shouldn't be cherry picking though..across the board is the way to go.
EVERYONE in the US needs to tighten their belt..not just "the rich".
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