[Notary Sojac]

all well and fine with the American people as long as it’s somebody else’s rice bowl

All you have to do is drag the idea of cutting Medicare through Free Republic, to get a whole bunch of "conservatives" to start wailing about how they paid for it and how the Government promised them....

And if that's what Freepers think, you can imagine how the sheeple would react.

[rhombus]

All you have to do is drag the idea of cutting Medicare through Free Republic, to get a whole bunch of "conservatives" to start wailing about how they paid for it and how the Government promised them.... And if that's what Freepers think, you can imagine how the sheeple would react.

Yeah, being trapped in a system causes a lot of resentment in people - no surprise. Sadly, the RINOs may know or sense something that many of us refuse to admit to ourselves.

[algernonpj]

All you have to do is drag the idea of cutting Medicare through Free Republic, to get a whole bunch of "conservatives" to start wailing about how they paid for it and how the Government promised them....

And if that's what Freepers think, you can imagine how the sheeple would react.

Here's a bunch of things I'd cut before I'd cut military benefits and medicare:

Anchor babies, illegals, new immigrants, and their respective extended families,
 (illegals alone cost $1/4 - $1/3 trillion per year; low skill immigrants cost ~$ 20,000 per household)

Fixing up ramshackle Mexican trucks that will put Americans out of work,

Sponsoring green technology overseas,

Paying college tuition for students from China ($ 8 billion per year),

Setting up the Moslem Brotherhood and al-Quaeda in Libya and Egypt,

Setting up CDC labs overseas,

Paying for post doctoral degrees for Indian scientists,

Billions in tax credits for illegals from the IRS,
Subsidizing Palestinian terrorists,
Funding the Taliban and other terrorist organizations in Afghanistan,

Hiring foreign workers for Oregon Forestry companies under TARP,

The entire Department of Education ($ 71,333,000,000),

The entire Department of Housing and Urban Development ($ 46,277,000,000),

International Assistance Programs ($ 25,502,000,000),

The entire Department of Energy ($ 34,215,000,000),

Blatant fraud in Medicare and Medicaid ($ 900 billion) which IBM offered to fix for free

[itsahoot]

All you have to do is drag the idea of cutting Medicare through Free Republic,

Kill all the old people that will shut them up.