[mbarker12474]

Social Security and Medicare entitlements should be attacked.

(Nevertheless, Mitch McConnell should be sent packing.)

[SatinDoll]

Social Security is not an entitlement; it is a contract. I started paying when I was 15 years old and I am now 64. I paid in and am now collecting.

[Fhios]

"Social Security and Medicare entitlements should be attacked." Agreed that they need to be reigned and scrubbed for fraud. But making it a 2016 election issue with our current misery index plays into the strength of the Progressives. Improve the economy, create slide rule ready jobs, reduce taxes on corporations through a combination of flat out lowering taxes and providing hiring and capital equipment investment incentives. There is so much money that goes to undeserved entities in aide, cash grants, claw backs, foreign aide. We have organizations that take government money then hands it back to political donations to perpetuate the circle. There's so much positive that can be done and used for PR, generic threats to entitlements is not a good start or talking points this election. This election needs to be "Morning in America" event. Reagan did it while not attacking entitlements directly, he attacked fraud -- much the same strategy Trump appears to be adopting.

[Georgia Girl 2]

News flash for you. The reason SS and Medicare are called entitlements is because they are a mandatory lifetime contribution by every worker. At age 62-65 you are “entitled” to receive benefits. Its not welfare.

Before “attacking” SS and Medicare as you so euphemistically opine maybe defund Planned Parenthood to the tune of $500 million, cut off welfare to everyone except the totally destitute natural born citizens and shut down 4-5 unnecessary and/or rogue govt agencies. All that savings could go to help fund SS and Medicare. The illegals alone cost $130 billion per year.

The GOPe want to cut SS and Medicare because they don’t have to face the blowback from the Dems that they would get if they cut welfare or big govt.