Discussion Topic
Shrinking Social Security Benefits Etc.
Posted on 08/24/09, 05:32 pm
For the first time in a generation, elderly and disabled Americans will receive smaller monthly Social Security benefits. Beginning in January of next year (2010), just a few months away, recipients of retirement and disability benefits will not get a cost-of-living increase, while at the same time, Medicare premiums will increase, and this will continue each year that Obama is President and the Democratic Party holds the majority of seats in the U.S. Congress.
By law, benefits cannot decrease; however, Social Security beneficiaries will get lower monthly payments after increasing monthly premiums for Medicare are deducted.
By some estimates, Social Security will be insolvent (bankrupt) in fewer than 15 years, and monthly payments would then cease entirely. Medicare will be unable to make payments to doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies in an even shorter period of time, possibly as little as 5 years from now.
A large part of the problem is caused by Democrat Party politicians whose votes have allowed millions of illegal aliens, convicted sex offenders, alcoholics, and drug addicts to receive benefits, in spite of these people never having paid any money into the Social Security system. Unfortunately, irresponsible and corrupt actions by bad politicians will lead to many good Americans who are retired or disabled being crowded out of the system and then dying homeless on the streets.
When will we ever learn that matters of life and death and livelihood are far too important to be in the hands of government and the criminal politicians who run it?
To quote Thomas Jefferson, "That government is best which governs least." Social Security and Medicare are good programs that help many good Americans in need, but when poked and handled by too many scheming power-mad politically-driven people, the programs turn from being a help to being a hindrance and ultimately a harm to the people the programs are intended to help.
The solution is simple. Start by removing illegal aliens from the rolls and send them back to their home countries or any country willing to accept them. Legal aliens good, illegal aliens bad. Next, remove sex offenders (rapists and child molestors and others), alcoholics, and drug addicts from the list of conditions considered to be disabilities. Raping and putting bad stuff into your body is a bad choice you made, for those of you who choose to do so, and you shouldn't be on the public dole so you can keep on doing it. Finally, we must pass laws that prevent politicians from meddling with elderly people's and disabled people's lives, lives which are already difficult enough without the meddling.
This rewarding of bad people and punishing of good people has got to stop. Let us as a nation be morally upright and take care of our good citizens, if only as an incentive to all people to be good, to obey our nation's good laws, and to aspire to do good.
This is just one citizen's opinion. What are your thoughts?
By law, benefits cannot decrease; however, Social Security beneficiaries will get lower monthly payments after increasing monthly premiums for Medicare are deducted.
By some estimates, Social Security will be insolvent (bankrupt) in fewer than 15 years, and monthly payments would then cease entirely. Medicare will be unable to make payments to doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies in an even shorter period of time, possibly as little as 5 years from now.
A large part of the problem is caused by Democrat Party politicians whose votes have allowed millions of illegal aliens, convicted sex offenders, alcoholics, and drug addicts to receive benefits, in spite of these people never having paid any money into the Social Security system. Unfortunately, irresponsible and corrupt actions by bad politicians will lead to many good Americans who are retired or disabled being crowded out of the system and then dying homeless on the streets.
When will we ever learn that matters of life and death and livelihood are far too important to be in the hands of government and the criminal politicians who run it?
To quote Thomas Jefferson, "That government is best which governs least." Social Security and Medicare are good programs that help many good Americans in need, but when poked and handled by too many scheming power-mad politically-driven people, the programs turn from being a help to being a hindrance and ultimately a harm to the people the programs are intended to help.
The solution is simple. Start by removing illegal aliens from the rolls and send them back to their home countries or any country willing to accept them. Legal aliens good, illegal aliens bad. Next, remove sex offenders (rapists and child molestors and others), alcoholics, and drug addicts from the list of conditions considered to be disabilities. Raping and putting bad stuff into your body is a bad choice you made, for those of you who choose to do so, and you shouldn't be on the public dole so you can keep on doing it. Finally, we must pass laws that prevent politicians from meddling with elderly people's and disabled people's lives, lives which are already difficult enough without the meddling.
This rewarding of bad people and punishing of good people has got to stop. Let us as a nation be morally upright and take care of our good citizens, if only as an incentive to all people to be good, to obey our nation's good laws, and to aspire to do good.
This is just one citizen's opinion. What are your thoughts?
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Reply #1 08/24/09 9:31pm
I think that this all may be true and if it is then it totally------is bad. -
Reply #2 10/27/09 1:32pm
I receive a 100% SS disability benefit. When I got it, I also got a Medicare Card. Did not expect that. I am 63 years old.
Is Medicare enrollment for me mandatory? Do I have a choice in having Medicare Benefits under these circumstances? Can I cancel it for now?? Does anyone know the answers to these questions? thanks. -
Reply #3 10/27/09 1:34pm
I might have just answered my own question(s) .. but it is dated 2005.
http://www.forhealthfreedom.org/Pu... -
Reply #4 10/30/09 10:48am
We have a similar problem in the Uk, the National health Service struggles to provide all the expensive new drugs coming out. It is hard to know what to do about this.
I don't think the answer is to exclude people. I think it is too simplistic to class people as 'good' or 'bad' like that. People can and do change if given the chance.
You mention illegal aliens. They are people just like you or me. But they are unlucky - maybe the government in their home country is corrupt and they cannot afford the necessary bribes to pay for correct papers, or their country is at war. Maybe their country is so dirt poor their family cannot afford to survive so sends their children across the world to support the family. For whatever reason they have had to travel dangerous journeys across the world to places where they do not speak the language or know the culture, where they live crowded in single rooms and work tough jobs for below minimum wage. These jobs are offered to British people who turn their noses up at them.
In any case, locating and ejecting these aliens from the country would be expensive and very difficult. The government, army and police would have to tear apart every home to locate illegal aliens who might be hiding there. These people are hidden and it is really hard to find them.
You also mention alcoholics and drug addicts. Again I would say these people are unlucky. Maybe something has gone wrong for them and they have turned to these substances to blot out their lives, or maybe they just got in with the wrong people and took the wrong road in life. I still don't think it is right to exclude them. You say that people should aspire to do good. Yet if you happen to become addicted to drugs or alcohol, and you are then excluded from receiving any help, what is there to aspire to? If there is a possibility to get clean and start again then people will take it. Not all people, and not immediately. But enough.
Once you start excluding people, where do you stop? These 'good' disabled Americans you mention for example. Some of them probably became disabled when they did dangerous sports, or crashed their car. Those people knew the risk of crashes and accidents before they started the sport or got in the car, just as the drug addicts knew the risks before taking drugs, so by your argument they should not be entitled to compensation since they knowingly caused their own disabilities and injuries. Fat people would be out too. Also anorexics, who knowingly chose to starve themselves when food was in plentiful supply, when in other less privileged parts of the world people are starving through no choice of their own. Do you see my point? There are many people who could be said to have "caused" their illness or disability, but a welfare state has to protect everyone. Who would make the decision about which people are deserving and which undeserving?
I don't know what the answer is but I don't think it lies in excluding people.
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