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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (759697)12/28/2013 10:49:10 AM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (1) of 1575594
 
>SS and Medicare creates more dependents because they ignore the impact of rising life expectancies and an aging population.

Come again? How does that CREATE more dependents? Seems to me that age and infirmity create more dependents, not Social Security and Medicare. Social Security and Medicare are two factors that increase life expectancy, which means they're operating as they're supposed to. I take it you'd rather have those people die? Their savings aren't going to help them; the average person between the age of 55-65 in the US has 30K in his/her 401k. That's, what, 50 million people? Without SS and Medicare, those people would be on the street or dead in ten years. That's third world stuff.

Besides, in the US, life expectancy among the poor is actually dropping, not increasing.

In the meantime, growth in health care costs is leveling off. We have Obama and the Dems to thank for that.

>By resisting any change necessary to deal with that trend, you are essentially owning the growth in dependents. And that suits you just fine because the more dependents you create, the more votes you can lock in.

Last thing I checked, no one's voting for me. You REALLY think that I support keeping Social Security and Medicare around because I want to see Hillary Clinton elected in 2016 or something? Really? You don't think for just one damned second that the lives of hundreds of millions of people don't have a thing to do with why I support Social Security and Medicare? I support them because they work.

-Z
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