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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
With due respect, DK, if those were the marching orders that you gave the Congress and they came back with ideas like... - Means test Social Security payments so that only the lowest-income Americans, who had no other means of support, recieved payments.
- Eliminate Medicare insurance for all but those Americans who could afford to pay for their own healthcare insurance.
- Simply stop spending on infrastructure projects.
- Draw down our military and reduce defense expenditures to peacetime levels.
- Or, stop completely any and all payments to foreign countries for aid to their sick, homeless or threatened citizens.
...would you be satisfied? Those types of steps would certainly meet the objective of "...simply stop spending". But would you be satisfied with the result?
We really do need to form some specific opinions on what we expect from our government, what we're willing to give up, and whether we're willing to pay any more for what government provides. |
The means Test for SS troubles me.... here's why: We're told that Uncle Sam will take our $$$$ over 40 years of hard work via a Soc Security Tax but not to worry because it is "our money" and that when we reach a certain age we can get our mone back. But now, because of fiscal mismanagementby our gov't and useles politicians., you say I can't get my money back.... even though the politicians have a golden parachute that is better than anyone... it's like I'm getting penalized for doing all the right things over all of these years. Sounds like a good case for privatization of Soc Security.