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   hanmari said, 12 months ago

   Yup, ever since our elected representatives in Congress hijacked the funds for these social programs to pretend to balance their budgets, deficits have been popping up all over. Their runaway spending and borrowing is the real problem, and having to pay for obligations that that have stolen all the cash out of will come to haunt them right quick.
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   indieme said, 12 months ago

   The biggest tap root of all was that tax cut for the rich.
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   MortyForTyrant said, 12 months ago

   The question for me – as a German – is: do you want to live in a civilized society or do you want to be barbarians? You eliminate SS and MC from the US and your are left with “Lord of the Flies”. It is fascinating to me that a nation that shouted “GO GET THEM!!!” in one voice on 9/12/01 can’t agree to take care of their sick and elderly. What are you, Martians?
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   braindead08 said, 12 months ago

   Medicare Part D should have its own branch.
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   Radish said, 12 months ago

   Varvel left out the military beast.
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   ODon said, 12 months ago

   He left out the military because they are needed to protect us…of course protection is why we have been specifically paying into social security and medicare for a number of years. Hmmm
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   dtroutma said, 12 months ago

   Part D should NEGOTIATE PRICES. SS and Medicare taxes may indeed need to be increased, and payouts adjusted to assure “actuarial reality”, but killing the whole crop is stupid. Start taking consideration of the cost of “defense” into the deficit before concluding only social programs carry the blame. (Let’s NOT forget those “tax breaks” either!)
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   flake-67121 said, 12 months ago

   the problem is the existence of government-enforced charity. Google “Not yours to give”
   Charity must be voluntary and private, and NEVER in money.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 12 months ago

   @MortyForTyrant

   People like myself agree the USA is a barbarian country. And a certain small segment, about 25%, want it that way and are doing everything they can to make it closer to their ideal. A corporate Holy American Empire.

   
   

   Since they embrace militarism and prisons they would fill them up with slaves and kill the rest. it is a sad time.
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    sbwinn said, 12 months ago

    @indieme

    The tax cut “for the rich” was peanuts. If you think it was anything compared to entitlement spending, you have no concept of the $$$ involved.
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    sbwinn said, 12 months ago

    @flake-67121

    Exactly. When someone takes from another to give to someone else you have a victim, a thief, and a moocher. No good comes of it at all. Let people do good of their own free will. The government makes a horrible charity (and an unconstitutional one at that).
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    indieme said, 12 months ago

    @sbwinn

    Peanuts? You must be watching too much Fix News. The debt increased more because of those tax cuts than any other spending. Only conservatives believe that bringing home less bacon feeds more mouths.
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    ARodney said, 12 months ago

    Social security can be fixed by simply raising the limit on the income, making it it progressive rather than regressive. One stroke, one pen. Only Republicans standing in the way of solvency.
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    kato1979 said, 12 months ago

    @hanmari

    Yeah, it’s all those social programs! Two immoral, illegal wars, tax-cuts for the wealthy, subsidies for already wealthy beyond belief oil companies and bloated defense budgets have nothing to do with it! Man, are you dense!
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    Ms. Ima said, 12 months ago

    @indieme

    Your ‘rich’ comments remind me of the racist that blames another race for all his problems.
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