Reply #56: +1000

[Aerows]

"Maybe the problem is that you do not have answers to questions people are asking. I would think though, that you should not direct that anger towards the people asking the questions. Maybe it should go towards those you are attempting to defend who are making it difficult for you to do so."

That's EXACTLY what the group of people who are getting enraged anytime someone discusses this should do, and I've told them so. Cutting SS and Medicare is political suicide, and even the defenders know it - that's why they are trying to deflect, deny and spin. They hope to keep people distracted until the bad news comes out, then they will spin it to the hilt.

You can't spin cutting SS and Medicare. People know that once those programs become touchable, there will be nothing but cuts until it is done away with entirely. We've paid into SS. It's OUR money. It also has NOTHING to do with the deficit. They want to rob SS to pay for wars, and because they know another Wall Street meltdown is coming (J. P. Morgan is leveraged out the ass).