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In reply to the discussion: This Is A Message To All On DU That Are Below The Age Of 55...... [View all]Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)9. All those over 55 and current recipients are at risk, too.
They will recalculate and reduce Social Security benefits through the "chained CPI," and don't think for a minute that Medicare and Medicaid won't be attacked immediately. Look at who they are, and what they do.
They - Romney, Ryan and the Kochs - are ideologically bound to Ayn Rand. They are impatient to implement her philosophy, which is the ultimate endgame of the Tea Party movement. They won't wait for 10 years to do that, guaranteed.
Oh, and we will go to war within six months of a Romney/Ryan administration, as well.
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The whole "if you're over 55 the changes won't affect you" argument is just another lie.
lunasun
Aug 2012
#102
I recall well thinking, lying in bed one night at about 14, if I were only 18 how great it
RKP5637
Aug 2012
#54
Damn, that really sums it up well! It does seem to run so much faster toward the end!!! n/t
RKP5637
Aug 2012
#105
Damn right. ANYONE below 55 is at risk of losing SS and Medicare in this "election"
ProfessionalLeftist
Aug 2012
#2
And the response to "but they're saving it"/"won't be there if they don't save it"
Patiod
Aug 2012
#4
What they're saving is fat tax cuts for the multi-millionaires.. and subsidies for Big Oil. n/t
progressivebydesign
Aug 2012
#25
My 4 children are all below 55 and I worry about their future should MittRyan win/steal the election
Auntie Bush
Aug 2012
#5
And on top of this the market is rigged in favor of wealth. Any thinking they are going
RKP5637
Aug 2012
#52
Right. And try saving that after inflation on $50,000 per year and a family.
JDPriestly
Aug 2012
#108
Yep--I'm in my forties. Spend 20+ years paying in, get "coupons" back that won't
TwilightGardener
Aug 2012
#8
Billions to kill Iranians - Nothing for Seniors/Students/Schools/the Middle Class/the Poor....
LibDemAlways
Aug 2012
#16
Lurking in the background is the catfood commission appointed by Obama to develop recommendations to
Citizen Worker
Aug 2012
#11
and this is helpful to defeat the republicans and the Ryan budget, how exactly?
progressivebydesign
Aug 2012
#22
I thought we were talking about defeating the attempt to end or cut benefits to those 55 or younger.
Dragonfli
Aug 2012
#50
Don't trust them. over 55 u need to know that they WILL make changes, and screw you too.
progressivebydesign
Aug 2012
#19
If what they're advocating were any good, they wouldn't HAVE TO 'reassure' 55+ seniors.
TahitiNut
Aug 2012
#21
They will try to sell the idea that it will be a "modified" version so the elderly + stoopid
flamingdem
Aug 2012
#29
Exactly!!! Some people just don't get it that SH** happens. Something happened like
RKP5637
Aug 2012
#59
I like to tell all the conservatives to go frack themselves but bestiality is against the law.
part man all 86
Aug 2012
#46
A lot of people in this country are woefully uneducated and if not that, a large
RKP5637
Aug 2012
#60
Damn... I was really hoping the body of the message would read "Get off my lawn!!"
harmonicon
Aug 2012
#67
Over 55 but know people whose lifeline, literally, is Medicaid. We can't let R-R kill them.
freshwest
Aug 2012
#69
Ryan simply had no balls to say this policy will start immediately because,
chelsea0011
Aug 2012
#73
I am 56 BUT I have grown kids. I want Medicare & Social Security to be there for them too.
jillan
Aug 2012
#83
A lot of young people have parents who are under 55 and we have to remind them
kimbutgar
Aug 2012
#88