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To: exnavy; xzins
Constitutionally speaking, federal gubmint has no business in healthcare, medicare, medicaide, social security, i could go on. I am, a natural born conservative, when it comes to gubmint, less is better.

Unfortunately all those programs are here to stay. At least until the government is no longer capable of printing money.

We can reform those programs slowly and we can make them more efficient and maybe someday privatize them or otherwise limit the central authority. But from a realistic perspective, you are not going to end them.

I don't believe that Social Security was or is constitutional. But after paying into it for over 40 years, you will only be able to take it from me now at the point of a gun.

Unfortunately a lot of people now count on this Obamacare fiasco to pay for treatment for debilitating diseases and any attempt to end the program now and leave these people in the lurch will not be tolerated.

The Federal government put their hand into this and I don't think it is realistic to think that our elected officials have the will or the balls to end it. Fix it? Yeah. End it? Not a chance.

29 posted on 03/09/2017 10:44:45 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: P-Marlowe; exnavy

Just to be a contrarian, there is no constitutional provision that says, “Congress shall not pass a social security law.”


35 posted on 03/09/2017 11:29:09 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
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