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Well, I dun think the average Grandma or Grandpa understood what was happening, and it ain't as if anyone in DC told the truth. Still, I agree.
I dun want to see even one single graybeard protesting cuts in Medicare and Social Security. Not ONE. And if you have at least $25,000 in come from other sources or at least $500,000 in assets, not including the family home, then IMO you should not receive Social Security at all.
I would not be suggesting such things, except I think this is a watershed moment for the US. If we do not accept these sort of deep, painful cuts we face a future that will change the US into Peru in one generation -- and I cannot accept that.
So why shouldn't those people get SS? They are the ones who paid into it and are supporting all of those who did not.
25,000 in income and no SS. My medical last month was 11,000. How would you square that if i only made 25,000 a year?
I'd like to say I have all the answers, syrenn. I don't. But that sort of change is what is needed....I wrote it in hopes of making the size of these cuts in spending/increase in taxes "visible" to the reader.
It is time to make some very hard choices.
The problem is that politicians make the choices for you. They protect themselves and fuck everyone else. Right and left do it equally.
Politicians salieries should be cut your 33%
Government employees salieries should be cut your 33%
Government pensions need to be cut your 33%
All government spending, all social programs should be cut your 33% NOTHING spared the ax.
All waste needs to be cut.
That is what should be done first.
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