[dp0622]

We have watched the federal government grow and transform into something we hate and fear...

That is true.

I hope Trump touches some of the 3rd rails in his second term.

SS and medicare are TOUGH NUTS to crack. NO congressman wants to vote for changes.

And of course older folks in my family depend on it.

So it’s time to make it understood to the younger crowd that they will not be able to depend on it BUT they won’t be losing 6 percent of their paycheck for life anymore.

I dunno...tough thing to tackle

[Sacajaweau]

Something has to be done so that when we get COLA, they don’t take it all away with Medicare Part B.

[Tucker39]

The fallacy is that SS, to bona fide elder citizens can supposedly “go broke”; but payola, bait, slush, grift to layabouts, goldbrickers, thieves, illegals and welfare queens never does. It’s merely a game for our “superiors”. They use threats of losing SS to frighten elders into voting certain ways; and promises of bigger welfare checks to entice the teatsuckers to do the same.

[Nateman]

...SS and medicare are TOUGH NUTS to crack. NO congressman wants to vote for changes.

That is why the Constituion has Article V. A balanced budget amendment would go a long ways towards cracking that nut.

[jmacusa]

Thing that staggers me is the most Americans actually believe that Social Security is some big pile of money that sort of spontaneously manifests itself out of thin air and ends up as a check in their mailbox. Few ever realize that We The People are the source of that money.