I am not missing any points.
Social Security and Medicare are not “entitlements” like welfare and other free stuff the government dishes out. People and their employers paid their money to these so-called “retirement” benefits. Many people are depending upon those retirement benefits (they planned their retirements around them) to survive through their old age.
It is you who is missing the point here. This is a fraud. It is theft. It is a lie to call retirement benefits paid for by people “entitlements.” If they could find the money to pay off unions, corporations, National and International banksters, they can find the money to pay retirees back the money they stole from them for a socialist scam.
You’re right it was fraud. They lied. Unfortunately our constitution has no penalty for a majority of congressmen lying.
As Patric Henry said during the ratification of the Constitution,
“I say they may ruin you; for where, sir, is the responsibility? The yeas and nays will show you nothing, unless they be fools as well as knaves; for, after having wickedly trampled on the rights of the people, they would act like fools indeed, were they to publish and divulge their iniquity, when they have it equally in their power to suppress and conceal it.
Where is the responsibility—that leading principle in the British government? In that government, a punishment certain and inevitable is provided; but in this, there is no real, actual punishment for the grossest mal-administration. They may go without punishment, though they commit the most outrageous violation on our immunities.”
Sorry, Sara, but it is you who is confusing “entitlement” programs with “welfare” SS/Medicare/Medicaid ARE the three major entitlement programs. If you think I am wrong, call your local SS office and ask them if SS is considered a federal “entitlement” program.