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To: RMF who wrote (36920)	9/10/2009 5:37:01 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 71588

I think the VOTERS behind them are too powerful to just end them. Which is why I said "practically the political forces behind them are probably too powerful to cancel the programs" Before the SENIORS went off to live under their favorite overpass they'd make SURE to VOTE first. A reduced role for government social programs does not equal "seniors going to live under their favorite underpass", esp. in the context of a gradually transition (rather than suddenly defunding programs that have reduced their earlier ability to do their own savings, after they move to the time for withdrawing money, and which they have spent their whole lives planing around and expecting to receive) But even the idea of gradual elimination is pretty much a starter. As I said before the political forces in play are against it, and also such long term transitions don't usually work out so well, each new president or congress can change the plan and eventually one will.