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IWhole lot of limosine lefties on this thread saying -we are the oppressed middle class- while Maria and jose do the housekeeping and gardening on the house -
And while you are at it maria- throw out all those amazon empty boxes from all my Chinese goods purchases-
Limousine lefties -sweating the loss of social security and medical benefits -something those they exploit do not even have
Btw many Chinese goods use prison forced labor in effect slave labor
For those waving the bloody shirt of american slave history -let that sink in for a minute
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If SS, medicare, and medicaid are failing or going to fail, can't we just move some money from the military budget ? That's where the fat is.
Nope, we've got to increase the military budget. We only spend more than the next 10 countries combined right now. It's not enough! Let grandma eat cat food. The MIC needs MORE, MORE, MORE!
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I thought Republicans cared about deficits.
Silly boy. That only applies when there is a Democrat in the White House.
You are more than welcome to invest your own money, however you are obliged to contribute to social security.
Wow, brilliant, thanks for the heads up on what I've known for my entire working adult life, unfortunately for you that is not what we were talking about. We were talking about my opinion on NOT having the government require us to do so, because I believe its not an effective or fair program. Try to keep up please.
That's their goal. They would do it today if they could.
As it is the Republicans have done this before. The strategy is called "Starving the Beast". It goes back at least to Reagan.
Here's the funny part. The 25% of the voting public that elected Trump will continue to CELEBRATE the fantasy that their children and their children's children will be living in the glory of the New Age. By golly after chopping those programs it's going to trickle down to them, after all the "free market" will surely lead them all to prosperity. It's just a matter of pulling themselves up by their boot straps.
In the back of their minds they KNOW that this is a fantasy, and that the Trump movement is based on a house of cards.
Subconsciously many of the Trump Cult think that the Republicans would never dream of cutting SS or Medicare, two programs which are absolutely essential for them to retire at some level of safety and comfort. But they are dead wrong. And they won't find out until it is too late.
All they have to do to make SS solvent is to raise the wage cap to above $150,000.00. They won't do that.
Because they don't want it to be solvent. They want it dead.
Paul Ryan has been dreaming about this since the day he didn't need SS anymore, after it supported him and his family and put him through school after his father died when he was a teen. He has fantasized about pulling the ladder up behind him since then.
Anybody who doubts this should read his 2012 tax and budget plans. His plan being implemented as he leaves Congress is his parting shot.
More reason for me to pad my 401K, investment and savings accounts. I would love to have SS when I retire but I am going to be ready for retirement as if SS never existed.
As for health care, I think it will be fixed within the next 10 years and hopefully all of us will be happy with it. Either that or the world will end in the meantime.
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