quote:Originally posted by slice:
Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner wants to see it done and I agree with him it should be, since most people are living longer. I also would like to see the end to medicaid and medicare done away with and that we go to private health care, why should I have to pay for someone else's health care??? That also means all those that are having children who can't afford them and putting it on the back of other's to have to pay for it. And those lazy people that just want everything given to them for free. End Social Security now!!! Support the Republicans that are conservative...
With Medicare, you are not paying for someone else's healthcare, that 1.45 percent of your income (which is also matched by you employer) that you pay in medicare premiums on every paycheck is to pay for that.
I am all for social security but I do not think the government should be running it or "borrowing" from it. Social security should be privatized with a set of investment guidelines and options for each individual taxpayer with a small portion of what we pay going into a fund for the risk of having to collect disability and for the risk of outliving your funds. I would think if privatized that the risk of outliving funds would be low since we would get more back during retirement from putting the money in a passbook savings account than what we get now with the government sticking their hands in it.