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In reply to the discussion: Why won't the GOP just come right out and say they want to cut SS, Medicare Medicaid? [View all]MyshkinCommaPrince
(611 posts)31. Agreed.
They keep trying to back our side into a position where we have to do the hard things that they want, but we don't, to fix the messes they've set up. The ShrubCo years look like one long, ugly example of that. Then they point to us, call us the enemy, and argue that government never works. Enough to make a person a bit snarly.
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Why won't the GOP just come right out and say they want to cut SS, Medicare Medicaid? [View all]
NNN0LHI
Feb 2013
OP
I don't get it. You first complained that he shouldn't be getting the yearly limit payout
eridani
Feb 2013
#22
Agreed 100%. Boomers had FICA doubled in 1983 to prepay our own retirement plus
eridani
Feb 2013
#35
I agree BUT at the same time we need to get even more progressive with our tax
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#18
Making people wait longer to collect benefits is already somewhat in place now...
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#26
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, ..."
baldguy
Feb 2013
#10
they KNOW that people are very fond of ss & medicare. they are political cockroaches.
spanone
Feb 2013
#25
Because they want Democrats to do the lifting, take the blame, and they want to benefit
TheKentuckian
Feb 2013
#28