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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (759366)	12/23/2013 7:02:02 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575647

No, you are wrong. Apples and oranges. SS only says that people need a guarantee was most cannot figure or unlucky enough that they need a long term dependent check to get by in old age. That is all and it is true. They don't live high on the hog, they just survive and the paid into it. Raise the cap and it is good for 75 years. And SS brought millions of destitute lives to live comfortably and with dignity. Social Security was pure fucking genius!! You are making a loose correlation between help and dependency with no evidence to back it up.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (759366)	12/24/2013 4:26:38 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575647

>If true, then the budgets of SS and Medicare wouldn't be growing in both absolute dollars and percentage of the federal budget. Instead, they would remain a fixed percentage of the budget, which would have been determined a generation or two after their creations. Huh? On what planet does that make sense? Both of those programs are affected by the population aging (though not to the extent some seem to think), and Medicare goes up because the cost of medical care goes up (which in the last three years, it hasn't much, and Medicare is becoming more and more solvent long-term because of that). So yes, there are more people becoming dependent of Medicare and Social Security. But that's not because those programs make people more likely to take those; age does. -Z