Why does GOP want to get rid of Social Security & Medicare? What will the future hold for retiring Americans?

Both Repubs and Democs have missused the SS funding. Both parties have raided the funding to help pay for their own pork, when they'd say they'll pay it back later. Both parties have also missued the existence of Social Security for their own political means, using it to cause fear and panic that the other side will end it.

And the problem is that it does need serious reworking. Things are not the same as they were in the 1930's. The SS system needs to be adjusted.

Such as means testing. Does someone who earns millions of $$ really need to get their money? I dont' think so.

Let the system keep it, and let the million and billionaires take it off in taxes. Also, when the repubs were trying to "privatize", it was only a few percent of the whole thing. To allow each individual the freedom to apply their own savings as how they want to, rather than be told that this is waht's happening to it, especialy when so much of govt bonds are so low in interest payments.

Truth is, both sides have been criminal in using the SS for their own means. We need serious contenders to do real work, not just dig up horror stories to frighten old people and let the newer generations be able to deal with their own resources.

They don't, S.S. is a huge pot that we all pay into to rely upon when our old age productivity eliminates most people's ability to earn a decent income anymore unless you have a corporate golden parachute to fall back on. I understand why regressives and anti-tax zealots have such a hard-on for dismantling S.S. I think there are two main goals at the root of their demand that S.S. be eliminated. - 1.

Social Security taxes are a "tax" and it benefits mostly people that are old, sick, poor and sometimes, not white or disabled, these are some of the most "undeserving" people in the minds of some regressives, so naturally, S.S. needs to be turned into a wall street casino slush fund for the investment gambling hucksters. And that's part of their main argument for eliminating S.S. taxes, because every penny of income "belongs" to conservative workers, apparently the only smart investment isn't in a not for profit old age insurance system like S.S. but in a riskier wall street investment gamble, one which proved during the mortgage meltdown of 2008, to be a lose-lose investment vehicle for most people whose 401K's were invested in disastrous derivative trading. - 2.

As part of the new deal S.S. has been a successful liberal program, conservatives hate how popular S.S./medicare has been with people who tend to love when government does what most corporations have never prided themselves in doing, caring for old/disabled working class people after the majority of their productive worker years have been used up/exploited, corporations rarely if ever have any program lined up like a livable pension for their former employees. Unless you first manage to work for at least 15 years in some capacity like a former fellow employee explained to me that it took 15 years after they last worked for Boeing before they could claim a pension benefit from their former employers. Look at all the hoops she had to jump through to qualify.

As a successful program, S.S. is highly regarded even by known tea-baggers who justify their small government hypocrisy by insisting that only they deserve government benefits they enjoy. But everyone else is a drag on the system because they don't vote anti-poor, anti-progress, anti-worker, anti-immigrant, pro-corporate, pro-rich. Dismantle S.S. and that eliminates a large majority of democratic voters and by collateral damage, a couple thousand or million of regressive voters who will likely be amazed at why their government hand-out wasn't preserved because of their disconnect between their destructive rhetoric and the obvious contradiction their ideology presents to them in the real world of cause & effect political posturing.

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