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Originally Posted by Riot

I disagree. I think the question is, "Why have we allowed our revenue to be slashed and hacked and given away, and why are we allowing it to continue to be slashed?"

And seriously, Social Security is just fine for the next 27 years, and has to be left out of this talk about "sky is falling, we need cuts immediately!" It's completely wrong to put Social Security into the same basket as the budget deficit and with Medicare, foreign aid, our defense budget, etc. Social Security needs to be addressed alone - NOT lumped into the general budget deficit.

This country is in trouble. This is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. We have never had more money. But we don't take care of our citizens as well as most other civilized first world countries do, by a long shot.

We have some of the poorest education, the poorest and unhealthiest citizens, millions don't have any regular health care at all, our elderly starve to buy medicine and our retirements are at poverty level compared to other first world countries.

If our America's attitude is going to be, "Hey - you are responsible for yourself, we should not let our government do anything for citizens other than hold a standing army", fine - but that sure as hell isn't what the Founding Fathers signed on to when they started this country.

I think we pretty much agree, but cutting SSI and Medicare benefits to the most wealthy would certainly help a lot. My concern has always been that when it comes time to spread the suffering, it never extends beyond the middle class.