Originally Posted by Guest

If you are not using Medicare for a portion of health insurance, then you are a fool. Sure Medicare only covers 80%, but you can get a supplemental plan that covers the rest for around $500. per month for a family of two.

You have spouted this they took my money before for social security, and Medicare. The money that they took is a tax. That tax went to pay for people that were collecting at the time. They could cut these programs, and we would continue to collect until the unused money that is sitting in the national debt is gone. You do know what a tax is don't you?

The problem with Republicans is that there are no moderates any more. EVERYONE that isn't a conservative, or far right is a liberal. The last thing that most Republicans on this board want to give anyone that doesn't agree with them is respect. Name calling is the name of the game. You try to tag all liberals, which is everyone that doesn't agree with you, as welfare mom, dead beat dad, illegal immigrants, deadbeat or a freeloader. You know everyone that isn't a God fearing Republican doesn't deserve to be here in the US. The 80's and 90's saw a lot of the give away programs done away with. What is left doesn't amount to a pi$$ hole in the snow!

If you don't think that bigotry exists in the Republican party, you are kidding yourself. The attack on minorities rights, voting rights in particular, is there for anyone with their eyes wide open to see. The conversation of voter ids on this board will always go around in circles with neither party giving an inch. Republicans here will cry they are crying racism again. If the shoes fits!

If you don't contribute to social security, you don't collect. See the next post for the backup for this statement. Changes have to be made in social security to keep it going into 2030's. They will be made in the future. Social programs can only survive for a short period of time. What do you consider a short period of time?

You don't think unchecked capitalism ran a mock in the early 2000's, then how do you explain The Great Recession? Banks leading money to people that couldn't make their first payment. Then packaging these loans, and selling them with the AAA rating to financial institutions that believed the rating agencies. Dodd/Frank tried to prevent this from happening the future, and Republicans did what they could to under mind Dodd/Frank.

If Clinton, or Trump get elected president, things are going to get worse.

Why does everything on this board have to result in argument? A civil discussion here is totally not acceptable.