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Social Security and Medicare are never going to be completely cut. They might see some cut backs, but they are not going anywhere even if we deficit spend to finance them. There are far too many baby boomers that vote who are relying on it for this to happen. Anyone who votes to shut those programs down will be voted out of office and replaced with someone that will promise to bring them back in the next election. You will see a lot of that in the fall as the republicans run on the platform of getting rid of the healthcare bill.
Politicians only really seem to do whatever it takes to get them elected again. They don't really care what is actually good for the country, they do care what is good for them and them keeping their jobs. I'm sure there are some exceptions, but it seems to me that most of them are this way.
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