Medicaid, SSI, food stamps, Title 8 housing, nobama phone and a million others are HAND OUTS. Freeloaders feel “entitled’ to them, but they are still hand outs.
SS and Medicare are not handouts, as anyone who paid into these scams through the years should be entitled to those benefits. Would be a much sweeter retirement had we had the Chilean Social Security type program to build our nest egg on.
I am on neither social security nor medicare so I don’t have a dog in this fight, BUT, notice when they changed the law and began calling social security insurance, now it is a tax. See, insurance pays a specified amount. That was the tip off anyone in that program was going to get screwed.
As far as getting their money back, whoa, why put it in if you get exactly back what you put in...today’s dollars are not worth anywhere near what they were 40 years ago for instance. Had these “insurance” funds been deposited into IRAs and invested ala what they did in Galveston and Chile, people would be retiring with amply funds to do so (not withstanding his excellency’s comments about how much one should have in retirement savings). If they want to change the program tomorrow, go ahead, but honor their committments to those who are vested in this program. If not, those who are getting screwed have one avenue of redress, their index fingers.