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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What’s Trump’s position on SS and Medicare?

He should slice medicaid.

Actual discretionary spending is a small part of our budget.

If SS and Medicare remain the same, there will be no balanced budget, i’m afraid

I could be VERY wrong.


4 posted on 04/29/2017 12:03:16 PM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

Honestly, I look at past times of heroism — like “the greatest generation” and I marvel at what people sacrificed. Young men with their whole lives ahead of them, and they gave it all so that others could have a bright future.

SS and Medicare? It may be a that a generation has to lose all of that. We can’t afford it. Be a hero. Say goodbye to government payments. Yes, it’s a sacrifice. But better people have sacrificed more.


8 posted on 04/29/2017 12:08:27 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: dp0622

You touch on a major issue.

I’ve heard that about 80-85% of the federal budget is on automatic pilot. About 80-85% of the budget consist of :

Social Security,
Medicare,
Medicaid,
defense spending,
paying interest on the national debt.

The interest on the debt tends to keep increasing every year because the total debt keeps growing.


21 posted on 04/29/2017 1:08:40 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: dp0622
What’s Trump’s position on SS and Medicare? He should slice medicaid.

He should get a task force going to find illegals receiving federal benefits, and deporting them, never to return.

34 posted on 04/29/2017 3:31:16 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: dp0622
If SS and Medicare remain the same, there will be no balanced budget, i’m afraid

Agreed. Those programs combined have at least a hundred trillion in unfunded liabilities.

46 posted on 04/30/2017 9:43:44 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan: http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: dp0622

No chance.

Look, even on FR, most people are all for cuts until it is their turn.

I don’t comment on SS threads any more, because everyone wants to keep their SS, but cut everyone elses.


50 posted on 04/30/2017 1:22:52 PM PDT by redgolum
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