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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?
My husband and I wonder what has happended to people's morales and values, let alone what has happened to America with all this non-sense.
We agree with the original write of this topic and pray that there is hope somewhere for it to get better - as there are so many people who do the right thing and truly need the help.
My husband and I wonder what has happended to people's morales and values, let alone what has happened to America with all this non-sense.
We agree with the original writer of this topic and pray that there is hope somewhere for it to get better - as there are so many people who do the right thing and truly need the help.