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Say Goodbye To Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid (And Unemployment) (Original Post) TaterBake Dec 2016 OP
and workers' comp, and. . . . niyad Dec 2016 #1
Get ready, your parents will be moving in. sarcasmo Dec 2016 #2
That should be interesting. The kids are living at home because of college debt and can't get shraby Dec 2016 #3
And then trump will crow about the rise in the median household Ohioblue22 Dec 2016 #8
Yes, I can tell how sorry you are. lpbk2713 Dec 2016 #4
Guns and bibles are tasty! Generator Dec 2016 #7
Don't worry it might not matter angrychair Dec 2016 #5
Removing that money will tank the system sab390 Dec 2016 #6
Do remember what our Nation Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #9
Get ready for all out political war, then n2doc Dec 2016 #10
the weird thing is they know this, which is okieinpain Dec 2016 #12
yeap uponit7771 Dec 2016 #11

shraby

(21,946 posts)
3. That should be interesting. The kids are living at home because of college debt and can't get
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 02:55 PM
Dec 2016

a job to pay it back very fast. The parents won't be getting social security so they will be short on the money end if they want to retire and gramma and grampa will be moving it with their children because they can't make it with reduced social security.

We're going back to 3 generations in one household.

Yaaaay progress in republican's terms.

angrychair

(8,748 posts)
5. Don't worry it might not matter
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 03:13 PM
Dec 2016
Experts say the changes, approved by overwhelming majorities in both the House and Senate, could aggravate tensions with Russia and China and prompt a renewed nuclear arms race


http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-missile-defense-unlimited-20161221-snap-20161221-story.html

sab390

(185 posts)
6. Removing that money will tank the system
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 03:32 PM
Dec 2016

The government is more than half of the healthcare system. Seniors spend their checks. We'll be removing more than a quarter of our economy. This is going to get ugly.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
9. Do remember what our Nation
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 03:38 PM
Dec 2016

looked like before any of these programs to hold. How about the Poor Farms ran by the Counties. And the last one closed in 1955 in Dunn County Wisconsin. Was their for the Cattle Auction that October.

okieinpain

(9,397 posts)
12. the weird thing is they know this, which is
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 06:24 PM
Dec 2016

why things will be postponed until after the mid-terms. why do that if what you're doing is great for the country.

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