Quote: (08-31-2012 03:30 PM)Scarlet_Terror Wrote:
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dismantle the social safety net?
You do realize that social security and medicare are going to implode, right? That everyone 40 and under is going to be severely fucked unless the systems are reformed?
The cost is so staggering that not even a huge taxe on the uber wealthy will make up the difference. The fact in a later post you think tax cuts for "the one percent" is what's making these programs insolvent shows how you're not grounded in reality, but rather ideology.
What's your solution?
I know medicare is a monster of a problem and parties keep kicking the can down the road. That doesn't mean these problems aren't solvable. We have a collusion of body blows right now. Skyrocketing health care costs due to technology and expensive patented drugs. Longer life spans, stagnant wages meaning fewer Americans can actually save for their own retirement, a brutal economy which means payroll taxes aren't able to fund the system well, lack of oversight for the way treatments are administered, healthcare lobby making it impossible to import cheaper drugs from abroad, money being diverted to military spending and tax cuts. It's a very complicated and multi-faceted problem to fix. It CAN be fixed but the nation is so polarized with regards to solutions that we remain in perpetual gridlock.