naturegirl
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Many of them are simply confused.
"Finally, Cornell Universitys Suzanne Mettler points out that many beneficiaries of government programs seem confused about their own place in the system. She tells us that 44 percent of Social Security recipients, 43 percent of those receiving unemployment benefits, and 40 percent of those on Medicare say that they have not used a government program.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/opinion/krugman-moochers-against-welfare.html?hp
i think we all heard the tea party people screeching "i hate government", but don't you dare touch my social security or medicaid".
cause it's not like government needs money to fund those things or anything.
Social Security and medicare are not funded by the government. Well they are not supposed to be but since the account was robbed for other pork projects yea, it's no longer funding itself.
A perfect example of a government that has no clue on how to run a program........Heaven help us when it comes to Healthcare!!
Yea, so leave the account my employer and I have funded since it's inception alone. It's not a freebee, it's a slush fund that has been used for "other" things that has now run short of funds.