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Old 12-20-2013, 09:11 AM
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It's a lucky thing for the elderly that Social Security wasn't created in the age of the Internet. That was a crap program when it started- huge numbers of workers weren't covered by it. But after several decades of tinkering, it turned into the lean, efficient, lifesaving program it is (and it's not in financial trouble. Medicare, whole different story, mainly because health care is too expensive here, but SS is fine.)

The ACA is brand new, major legislation. It's going to take years to fix the issues that will come up. But the GOP is frantic to kill it before it's instituted, because they're afraid once it's in place it'll deliver electoral seats to the Democrats for decades. I don't know why they're worried. Americans have the long-term memory of a gadfly (see the lionization of Ronald Reagan); I'm sure the GOP will figure out a way to take credit for the ACA.
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