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In reply to the discussion: Why Aren't We Talking About EXPANDING Social Security and Medicare? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)The SS fund has a two trillion dollar surplus and it will double by the year 2023 even if the economy and employment rates stay as they are now.
This fund is separate from the Federal Budget so money going out from that fund has nothing to do with the Fed. Budget.
To increase benefits now, would stimulate the economy, it would be a stimulus that the people themselves already paid for and it would not come from the Federal Budget.
People paid into this fund. The morons in our Government who borrowed from to pay for the Bush tax cuts and their insane useless, wars for profit, had no business doing so. They lied about the wars and the cost, they lied about the Bush cuts which cost this country 2 trillion dollars. WE had to pay that Welfare check also.
The only reform Medicare needs is to lower the eligibility age, remove any middlemen and let the Government run it, as they successfully ran medicaid until the private corps got involved there also, raising the overhead for profit.
Medicare for all paid for the way every other civilized country pays for theirs.
But don't even think about cutting benefits. That money belongs to the people and no member of Congress, or unelected moron like Alan Simpson, or greedy lying Corporation has any right to touch that fund other than to make sure it goes to the people who own it.