[FreeReign]

...wealthy Americans should receive less benefits across the board, says Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

They take your money and they promise to give it back to you.

Then they don't give it back.

[Lurker]

Te way scum like Graham think it was never your money to begin with.

[Dave W]

Well, that is true, but don't you think we all know it is a pay as you go system by now? Because of that, SS will be broke soon, so what is your solution? SS is really nothing more than an income tax - there really is no pretense that it is anything other than that.

The real problem is that the voters keep on voting for politicians that do nothing about SS and I don't think that will change. So, the SS income tax will need to rise or cut benefits.

The politicians don't have the will to cut other spending enough. However, that is hard to do since SS and Medicare make up 60% of the budget. Because of that huge percentage, the only way to save it is to raise taxes and reduce benefits, which is what has been said repeatedly now for two decades, but no one did anything.

[WayneS]

They take your money and they promise to give it back to you.

Then they don't give it back.

If an 'operation' like that is run from a Walmart parking lot it's called "scamming the elderly" and the perpetrator(s) can go to prison...

... if it's run out of the Capitol building in Washington, DC, then the perpetrators can vote themselves pay raises from the proceeds -- and then take even MORE money, from the SAME people, the following year.

[divine_moment_of_facts]

Graham is a little too late.. Congress should have thought of that idea 30 years ago when people who paid NEXT TO NOTHING into the system started getting HUGE sums of money and have ever since..

Meanwhile.. People retiring soon who PAID HUGE AMOUNTS into the system are going to get NEXT TO NOTHING in this PONZI SCHEME!

MEDICARE is another scam.. Why the hell are we paying for people who can afford to pay for themselves?!

The ENTITLEMENT WHORES are the reason our states and country are BROKE!

ENTITLEMENTS SHOULD BE FOR THOSE WHO TRULY NEED THEM!!!!!!!! Isn't THAT the CONSERVATIVE WAY?