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Showing Original Post only (View all)Surely every American must realize any cuts hereinafter made to social security, Medicare, or [View all]
Medicaid will serve to pay for the recently enacted permanent tax cuts for those earning from $250,000 to $450,000, permanent cuts in capital gains and dividends to 20%, and an assorted bundle of corporate tax breaks/giveaways. Any cuts to these programs to fund these tax cuts and corporate giveaways would, imho, depict just how brazenly craven our government has become and should, for all time, convince we the people that our government does not operate/govern to promote the general welfare for we the people, but rather to promote the interests of the most affluent and large corporations. Rebuttal invited.
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Surely every American must realize any cuts hereinafter made to social security, Medicare, or [View all]
indepat
Jan 2013
OP
From me all you get is agreement, the US gov. does not exist to serve "we the people," rather
RKP5637
Jan 2013
#1
Too many old people with ever expanding life expectancies and uncontrolled medical expenses.
dkf
Jan 2013
#26
They are elderly and are double covered from their jobs and Medicare..both of them.
dkf
Jan 2013
#34
So what you are saying is that the BIG money is in the gap between 250 and 400k??
JoePhilly
Jan 2013
#7
Yes. I was one of the ones who said that when it was being done. And I kept getting comments like
plethoro
Jan 2013
#19
Much more open now about being greedy and screwing the old, infirmed, and poor f/b/o
indepat
Jan 2013
#31