I don't care if the poor starve under a bridge as long as I am not taxed to support them. I have paid into this damned thing for many years, I want my money back with interest.
This looks like another bene for for the illegals.
Seriously, the Social Security proposal is the right thinking -- to protect those at the lower end rather than provide for the entitlement of lavish living for the well-to-do, as some notion of misguided justice. It was intended as an insurance program so people in their vulnerable years had a floor supporting them -- and not foster the middle-class notion that retirement should be the fulfillment of every fantasy they've nurtured over the years as their entitlement.
And that's what your newspapers have deluded their readership with -- those false notions of life and reality by blurring the distinction between the true and the false. It is just what "they" say -- and they can cite whatever expert, study, poll they want to support it -- and suppress any information they don't want the public to know.
It's just time for society and culture to take the next step up -- leaving the demagogues at your local newspapers to rant to their groupies still left.
I feel extremely frustrated.
We've got as our president one of the best presidents this country has ever had (not perfect, I criticize him on immigration too) but one of the best. And the media is working full time, at 100% full power, day and night, to bury his messages, his programs and his initiatives.
When Bush was running for president, I knew what to do. Contribute as much as I could to the campaign, both in word and deed (money).
But what can I do now? What can we do now?
Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their party.
But how?