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Originally Posted by ADL Colin
Read back just a few posts. I already mentioned medicare and medicaid. Duh, I know we already have these. I was against Bush' Medicare D proposal ever since he made it during the election. So there is no way I would have added Med D a few years back when it passed.
That being said I wouldn't take these services away from anyone already receiving them. There is the rub. Once you introduce such a service it is hard as hell to take them away. You are 100% right. "It is NOT going away anytime soon". I believe these "services" should have never been introduced. That doesn't mean I would eliminate them once they have been introduced. It would make sense to reduce the scope over time though. Pretty sure social security is going to have to be reduced one way or another.
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well good luck to any politican whose "solution" to the healthcare crisis is to reduce benefits over time. He'll never get elected and if you aren't in power you can't change shit.
And you're right SS is one big fuck-up and they are going to fuck around until something drastic has to be done and then NO ONE will be happy.
And the reason nothing gets done is because the people for keeping it as is and the people that want to get rid of it completele will never see eye to eye until the shit hits the fan. This is also a reason why minimum wage get raised only once every 10 years, when common sense would dictate an annual raise based on inflation would be less stressful on business than $2.10 over 2 years. And within that 10 year people people are earning more money instead of seeing stagnant wages.