No, I'm not being sarcastic at all. Personally, I find it rather disengenous to see many posters here tout the pro-family line in one thread, and then want to throw Grandma to the wolves in the next. I don't think some of you have a clue what pro-family means.
I dont think grandma is going to get thrown in the street. The cuts could come from means testing as this is the most wealthy demographic segment of the population.
The is also reverse mortgages on the family house or grandma could move in and pay rent.
Lots of possibilities. But understand that gen xyz has thier taxes doubled, will pay more taxes, had thier benefits cut twice and will face more draconian cuts.
And after all this, the seniors are so greedy they wont even gen xyz start thier own private accounts- even if there are no cuts in the current program.
Right. Reform now will reduce the likelyhood of eurostyle death spiral.
Your rhetoric sounds as if it comes directly from a set of DNC talking points.
I'm pro-family, MY family. Why should my kids be saddled with an onerous tax burden for the benefit of folks who made poor choices (or no choices at all)? Social Security has only been around for about seventy years. How did all the old Grannies survive before that?
I think you are mistaking "charity" for "government welfare." As a Christian (and pro-family) I am told by God to help those in need. But that is my responsibility. It is not the governemnt's job to take it at the point of a gun, which is what we have now.
Compassion does not equal more of my tax money confiscated to give to others. Especially as Social Security is given to all seniors, whether they are poor or filthy rich; and social security taxes are taken from all younger workers, whether they are poor or filthy rich.
It's wrong and needs to be reformed in my view.