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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (240835)	12/30/2013 8:37:39 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) of 541627

All I'm saying i don't think the populace was ever given a choice about whether to participate (via payroll deduction) in those programs. I think your statement that those programs have broad support is an assumption that has never been put to the actual test. I can only assume that the fact members of the GOP congressional delegation will not mount a direct attack on Medicare and/or SS does not constitute data to you. If they had the least sense, given their base, that such an attack would be politically profitable, they would jump, without hesitation. It's the best evidence you could find that these programs are quite popular, sufficiently so that even the politicians clearly opposed to them, fear being tagged with trying to end them. Much stronger evidence than a poll.

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