I stopped reading when I saw the reference to the ‘New School’. No thanks. But, when it comes to Gov’t programs, I would like to say that , after paying into Medicare for 50 years, I have never paid so much for my health care and my prescriptions. It would appear that I am being personally penalized because my husband is still working. And Medicare WAS NOT supposed to be a ‘welfare-like’ program, with means testing!
“O-H-...”! Any government program that forcibly extracts money from one person and gives it to another is welfare. Our politicians have been adept at lying about it but the lies do not make it any less a welfare program. The SC has ruled as such more than once. Their are no laws re. SS beyond the reach of the current Congress. Here today gone tomorrow if they had the votes.