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Neither are even close to being free market - both are HEAVILY regulated.
Being regulated when providing potentially lethal (utility providers) service to customers is a bad idea?
Neither are even close to being free market - both are HEAVILY regulated.
Some of these seniors need to have some respect, they want more services but want others to pay for it
They've been paying in to this program all their lives, you ignorant jackass.
They also voted for the gov't to spend that money on themselves during that same working life. I'm tired of seniors whining about "they paid" for it when it's already been spent - ON THEM. It's a double dip because we've had politicians who were too afraid to face the problem of old age entitlements. It's broken and needs to be fixed so the next generations don't abuse the purse too.
They also voted for the gov't to spend that money on themselves during that same working life. I'm tired of seniors whining about "they paid" for it when it's already been spent - ON THEM. It's a double dip because we've had politicians who were too afraid to face the problem of old age entitlements. It's broken and needs to be fixed so the next generations don't abuse the purse too.
Had the SS funds not been raped by politicians on both sides of the isle many years ago there wouldn't be the issue there is today.
Being regulated when providing potentially lethal (utility providers) service to customers is a bad idea?
Had the SS funds not been raped by politicians on both sides of the isle many years ago there wouldn't be the issue there is today.
Has insurance prices, the price of utilities, gone down with competition?
shit like this actually makes me consider voting for the RR ticket.
fuck the AARP, they're the biggest lobbyist in the country. I don't think their interests extend far beyond getting money for themselves.
Yep, and it was the seniors of today that allowed it to happen. Shame on them. We need to stop it immediately so future generations don't get harmed.
Except that SS shouldn't have been there, these seniors should have been allowed to KEEP more of there own money, there's nothing wrong with that
Nothing like trying to change the past after the fact.
Fuck the past. Just learn from it, then go out there and change the future.
Medicare is not, repeat, NOT a viable service as it is structured and organized now. It is going to be changed. Let's get it done now before it fails. Or would that not be in the Democrat play book.
Vouchers and free market competition are the way to go.
p.s., If I had my way I would, over a period of 30 years, get rid of both Medicare and Social Security.
I understand things must change for future generations however, you have many people/couples who contributed to SS all their working years with the promise they would receive a pension/medicare in their retirement years. Maybe we should do away with military retirement as well.
Good point D-Man as you perhaps forget to say, you have been paying into Social Security
in dollars worth a dollar 30 years ago, and why should you receive that social security money back in dollars worth only 30% of what it was before?
Just so you all know I am retired. My generation is the first that will never get back what we and our employers paid into the system. Our SS is not an entitlement it is a poor investment forced on us and our employers. And you can bet your fanny I am going to try to get some of it back. I retired at 62 at very reduced benefits. The knothead that is tired of seniors whining has no clue. I am wondering what money they have already spent on me. I have never collected a dime from the government except a pitiful amount from SS which I indeed paid for.
Respect is earned, not given. Ryan and anyone who supports his voucher proposal are saying that they don't respect the people who will be affected by that proposal.
Except that his changes to medicare won't effect anyone who is in medicare TODAY.