It's gotta be talked about, but in the right way.
It isn't about cutting Medicare and SS, it's about streamlining it by cutting out the fraud and instigating another welfare to work program.
Plus making these unwed welfare mothers give up the fathers and make them take responsible for their spawn.
And quit paying little girls to have a string of babies to keep the "free" (read taxpayers) money flowing in.
The giant bureaucracies behind SS, Medicare, Education, Transportation, the IRS etc need to be cut to the bone.
Reduce gov worker's salaries (way above the private sector) and pensions for another plan.
The three counties around Wash DC have the highest median income of the whole country. That's gotta tell ya sumpin'!
It isn't about cutting Medicare and SS, it's about streamlining it by cutting out the fraud...
Maybe it's just my cynical nature but, does anyone else suspect that many of these programs were ALLOWED to be fradulentally gamed? It makes the participants, patricularly those gaming the system look at the federales/taxpayers as a bunch of dupes just begging to be had. Those with Entitlement Mentality Syndrome were encouraged to participate in the system to demonstrate just how wonderful Big Brother can be. Anybody that wants to can play; there's plenty to go around; the world is an oyster and they're the shuckers. We are of course, the suckers...