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In reply to the discussion: Question: how would you feel if they raised the minimum age of Social Security or Medicare? [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Is to apply for MediCal. In my case, we make Seventy dollars a month too much to get it.
Our big problem with "democracy" in this nation, is that the Political Class is so very far removed from the reality of what it means to live on a paycheck, pay taxes, and expenses and still survive.
One reason I couldn't bring myself to entertain a Pres. Hillary Clinton back in 2008, was how she had blithely declared back in 1993, that under her plan, a person in US making $ 24,000 a year would be spending only one quarter of their income on health insurance for themselves and their family... This showed me she was totally out of touch. Maybe she and Bill lived in the Deep South far too long - where even in the early 1990's, housing costs were rather minimal. (I had friends living in Louisiana at that point in time, and they were paying $ 300 for a three bedroom house with yard and garage.
But people in the big cities were already renting places that consumed half their paychecks. Plus paying one third of their income to taxes. (An indie contractor making $ 24,000 a year pays 3,600 bucks just to Social security - a fact that often is overlooked by the Political Class.)