Absolutely.
I would also end all the other trappings of the welfare state.
Big Brother is neither my benefactor nor my friend. That you believe him to be so is the very cornerstone of your twisted authoritarian ideology.
Looks like I will have to toss in #1 for good measure.
So what happens to elderly citizens who face a major illness?
The same thing that happens to younger people when they get a major illness.
As TakeAStepBack already obviously pointed out, nobody gets out of this life alive. He also pretty much covered the other bases that I would have.
But, as has also already been pointed out, you are a blind authoritarian progressive ideologue, who is completely disinterested in considering any other methods of doing things, outside of forcing your neighbors to pay for your peurile notions as to what constitutes compassion. It is you who is the extremist.
Again, covered in numbers 9 & 1.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund Burke
That would be YOU.
There is nothing evil about Social Security and Medicare. Anyone who would end those programs would make an authoritarian look like Gandhi. They are social INSURANCE programs that have been EXTREMELY successful, a MUCH better value than ANY private insurance program and have not added a penny to our debt.
Your "ideology" is all too familiar to civilized people. We have suffered through it before when ideologues profess social Darwinism. It is the very essence of the "ideology" of Stalin and Hitler.
The Social Weapon: Darwinism
The twentieth century was one of the darkest and most deadly in all of human history. Vast amounts of blood were spilled and people subjected to the most terrible fear and oppression. Such dictators as Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot inflicted genocide on millions. Hitler had those whom he regarded as useless exterminated in the gas chambers. Hundreds of thousands of people in many Western countriesfrom Great Britain to Germany, from the USA to Swedenwere compulsorily sterilized or left to die just for being sick, crippled or old. All over the world, people were oppressed and exploited because of ruthless competition. Racism became the ideology of certain states, and some races were not even regarded as human at all. Because of the conflicts and hot and cold wars between East and West, the peoples of communist and capitalist countries, and even brothers, became one another's enemies.
darwinisim
The main point not generally realized, however, is the nature of the ideological foundation that propelled the 20th century towards such disruption, chaos, war and conflict, and gave rise to such hatred and enmity. The groundwork of this ideological foundation was laid by the British economist Thomas Malthus. This twisted concept, widely accepted by people far removed from religious moral values, was further strengthened by another Briton, the sociologist Herbert Spencer, and disseminated by the theory of evolution put forward by yet another Englishman, Charles Darwin.
selfishness
As dictated by the ideology they advocate, these three figures entirely ignored such religious moral virtues as cooperation, altruism, protecting the poor and weak, and regarding all human beings as equal. In contrast, they proposed the falsehood that life is a battlefield, that the oppression and even extermination of the poor and those races whom they regarded as inferior was justified; that as a result of that pitiless struggle, the fittest would survive and the rest would be eliminatedand that all this would lead to human progress.
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."
Thomas Jefferson to the Republican Citizens of Washington County, Maryland" (March 31, 1809)
"The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities. But in all that people can individually do as well for themselves, Government ought not to interfere."
President Abraham Lincoln
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
While not all conservatives are authoritarians; all highly authoritarian personalities are political conservatives.
Robert Altmeyer - The Authoritarians
