People who collect Social Security and Medicare are leeches.
The money they "paid into" Social Security/Medicare was redistributed the very same year that you "contributed" it. They do not have an account that has accrued investment or interest. No, instead the money they are receiving and spending because they did not properly plan for their older years it forcefully collected from me and every other person who has a job today. It is taken directly from our paychecks - confiscated against our will - and redistributed to the leeches.
My family suffers because of this confiscation - it is OUR money, not ythe leeches. I work and earn that money for THEM, not for the leeches. As it is, all of the money that I work for and earn between January 1 and February 24 next year will be confiscated - stolen - by the leeches.
My children have to do without some things because 15% of my pay is confiscated before I ever see it. What, specifically, can I not afford for them? I can't afford to enroll them into private school and must homeschool them instead. And, no, I'm not going to send them to government schools where education welfare is distributed. I don't intend to take the handouts paid for by forceful confiscation from others.
And now the leeches actually applaud the largest expansion of government entitlements in...well, I think in the history of the United States. I hope those who are applauding this never even think of calling themselves conservatives. I'm sickened that it was the Republicans pushing through this socialist crap last night. I'd applaud the Democrat's opposition against it, but they only opposed it because it wasn't socialist enough for their tastes. If it was the Democrats who came up with this exact scheme during the Clinton years, every Republican would have been up in arms to defeat it. Instead, now they're applauding it. This proves that the current Republicans in Congress are Socialist Lite and the Democrats are Pure Socialists.
Last night was an ugly night for our nation. The repercussions that this vote will have on my children and grandchildren can only be guessed at by seeing the debacle that Social Security and Medicare has become over time. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it and the Republicans just repeated it, ignoring the lessons of history and gleefully expanding the socialist state.