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**emuffette** · 01-29-2012, 05:14 PM

I'm not worried about them.. I'm worried about this gigantic bubble of old people who are going to vote their benefits, right, wrong, unfunded or indifferent..

I wondering if the GOP will push them too hard, or even scare them, into voting for "their" benefits/free shit paid for by someone else..

The democrats are more popular than they should be.. Not even the Republicans want SS and Medicare cut..

The support just isn't there. They don't care.. They just want it.

We need to be worried about the ignorant people, because they are allowed to vote.

I have not heard anyone from either party say that they want to cut benefits for those already on SS and medicare or those within a few years of being on them. A gradual transition to some form of sef funded retirement system is they only idea that could really work.

The problem will always be the people who live for today only and will not put anything away for their later years. Rightly or wrongly, our society will never tell them to go live under a bridge and starve, even though their situation is of their own making.

01-29-2012, 05:14 PM	#24
emuffette Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 491 Senior Member	I'm not worried about them.. I'm worried about this gigantic bubble of old people who are going to vote their benefits, right, wrong, unfunded or indifferent.. I wondering if the GOP will push them too hard, or even scare them, into voting for "their" benefits/free shit paid for by someone else.. The democrats are more popular than they should be.. Not even the Republicans want SS and Medicare cut.. The support just isn't there. They don't care.. They just want it. We need to be worried about the ignorant people, because they are allowed to vote. I have not heard anyone from either party say that they want to cut benefits for those already on SS and medicare or those within a few years of being on them. A gradual transition to some form of sef funded retirement system is they only idea that could really work. The problem will always be the people who live for today only and will not put anything away for their later years. Rightly or wrongly, our society will never tell them to go live under a bridge and starve, even though their situation is of their own making.
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