Not even close. Social programs bailed us out of the Great Depression. They were at the time, a necessary means to an end. They have since morphed into bureaucratic nightmares that are bottomless pits and excuses to jack our taxes. None of them meet the needs for which they were originally designed.
Great truth in that.
You cannot survive on social security and you won't live long solely on medicare. You can't survive on a union retirement check.
Yes
They're just props for that self-perpetuating beast we call a government to rob at will.
Overstated given that government is spending much of the social security money on things other than its intended purpose. It's in part propping up YOUR retirement, for example.
So just what is it exactly they have done to make us great? I can make the money robbed from my check for social security and medicare work FAR better than its going to where it is.
I don't doubt that.
Still, how to we make the transition from what we have to something less costly?
Expecting people already dependent on those social programs that you and I BOTH AGREE are failing miserably, but are nevertheless keeping them off the streets isn't realistic.
Shall we set up the killing fields and cull the old, the weak, and the lame?
What is your solution out of this mess?