JoeB131
Diamond Member
The military gets whatever we can give them with our blessing. It's not even near welfare because they earned it by serving. My father didn't fight in Korea for over a year to make the two bucks a day the military paid him at the time. Now he takes advantage of VA benefits for the things Medicare falls short on. The war changed his life forever and that's the least we could to for him and millions like him. My mother spent the first several years of their marriage calming my father down when he frequently woke in the middle of the night screaming bloody murder from nightmares of being attacked while sleeping in the woods.
Yeah, here's the thing. I get the same benefits for just sitting behind a desk filling out DA Form 362 he gets for serving in Korea.
Yes, these other programs payout more than we paid in, but at the same time, some people (who die before retirement age) paid into it and never got a nickel back. It's why we on the right oppose new ones just like it. It works like insurance. You may drive your entire life without so much as scratching another persons car. You lose because you paid into it and never used it. At the same time, bad drivers are covered when they do get into multiple accidents, and get back more than they paid in.
Or we just realize that we have an obligation to our less fortunate members and redistribute the wealth fairly and evenly. There's an idea.
However unlike the private market, insurance companies raise their premiums when they are paying out more than taking in, and that's something our government didn't do often enough. That's why what you claim is absolutely true. If we want these programs, fine, we need to fund them like insurance. If we don't want them, devise a plan to slowly dissolve them.
Actually, what the insurance companies did was hire a bunch of people to find new ways to cheat you after you paid in your money. It's why private insurance needs to go.
We spend 17% of our GDP on health care compared to the rest of the industrialized world, which spends 8-11%. We have the worst results in every health care metric despite spending more money. But dumb shits like you are happy to have no insurance because you don't want "those people" to get it, either.