>So that makes it OK to do MORE YET of the same?
Well it depends on what the alternative is. If the alternative is keeping the system as it stands currently with a train wreck in the near future, then sure. It is preferable. Do you really understand what kind of train wreck we’re looking at here?
If you have a better option, feel free to offer, but Social Security and Medicare HAVE to be cut in cost. There is no alternative. Those expenditures cannot remain on their current path or we will be broke to a point when the lending will stop and printing money becomes the only option (and it’s a really, really bad option).
Yes, I can. I can do numbers and operate a spreadsheet as well as most anyone here. I understand investments and the time value of money and all that stuff. In fact, some here might consider me to be one of "the rich" who would be directly affected by further 'means-testing' of SS.
But I also understand politics and symbolism. Only AFTER the 'ruling class' (and we all know who they are) are given a haircut should taxes be further seized from the productive class.
Speaking strictly for myself, I'm very tired of being shorn to supply wool for Washington.