Lindsay Graham just unveiled the republican plan for social security and medicare. Their plan is to cut the amount people already on social security gets. To starve the social security fund, to allow those coming up to invest in private accounts. And the icing on the cake, deny those with disabilities benefits or make it extra difficult for them to qualify. And they want to cut out medicare completely. Never mind the fact that that will leave the majority of seniors with no medical insurance. Those living on retirement cannot afford to buy insurance and could not get it anyway because of pre-existing conditions. All this from senators living off the largess of the taxpayer, ie they are welfare recipients. Every member either gets a subsidy to the tune of 70% of the premiums or are on the Federal Employees Health system. And they get excellent care--much better care than you, their employer, can get. This is so twisted. They should be forced to pay 100% of their health insurance. The average working person or the poor person cannot even afford insurance. Dental and vision care is ignored because there is no money for it.
So for the republicans to plan on cancelling medicare and social security when congress are the ones who set it up and forced seniors to buy into medicare by allowing insurance companies to charge they high premiums with very little care, this is basically Mafia tactics. And still funneling $2billion to oil companies, $16million to sitting members of congress in farm subsidies. The taxpayer also subsidizes many big businesses. But we can't take care of our citizens. Our citizens are not important. I haven't figured out how in hell fools like Graham figures they can fund their pet projects when there is no more blood left in that turnip that is the taxpayer. Our country is in a deep mess. And don't get me started on climate change and how it is just being ignored.
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