Most people don't pay enough into the system to pay their own way.
You are correct. And as people start living longer and longer this is a problem we will have to address....it's uncomfortable but calling people names who even dare bring it up is ridiculous.
I'm just stating a fact when I say that the money that is spent just to keep bodies alive is astronomical. That is not a comment on whether or not that money should be spent..it's just a fact..a fact that people don't want to talk about.
And this notion that "we paid in.." Anyone who has taken care of an elderly person knows that one long hospital visit more than takes up what was put in..and that's the truth.
If we say we will do this ... whatever it costs, than we're going to have to decide as a nation what is going to have to go...because we just won't be able to afford it.
Watch, I give you 10 posts before someone calls me a Nazi.