“If the notion that Medicare recipients are simply “getting back what they paid in” is false then where is the money coming from? Simply, the excess received is being borrowed from younger generations and the cost is more than we can bear.”
You get nothing but agreement from me. If conservatives are consistent, then they have to acknowledge that they aren’t conservatives when it comes to big government programs like SS and Medicare.
They continue to exist because people like getting stuff from government.
The effort to convince “conservatives” on this board that they should at least be honest about where the money comes from is probably humanly impossible.
So we roll on until we can’t roll no more.....
Like any Ponzi scheme, those at the top are getting far more out of the system than they contributed. It is very difficult to reduce benefits for people who believe that they earned the right to the benefits and don't consider them to be taxpayer provided subsidies.