Why?
According to what theory of justice could this possibly be true?
WHY? Because our seniors have paid into these programs all their adult lives and it’s your opinion that they should be robbed...just like it’s Obama’s opinion that they should be robbed? If we could apply criminal charges to our government officials they would all be in jail for bank robbery!
Let me take a wild wack at that.
Because they and their employers paid for medicare coverage throughout their working lives. Maybe that is why the “deserve” to get the money back that was supposedly for health care in their old age.
If the government liberatarians want to say there is not money for the benefits people paid for, then give them back the money with interest so they can buy their own health care coverage. You bailed out the banksters, poured billions into failed alternative energy business and paid off GM’s unions. These fascists paid no insurance premiums at all.