I think people who are dependent on those programs now and those like yourself who have paid into them for a lifetime should get what they were promised. These programs should be eliminated and/or scaled back massively however for the younger generations and the future ones.

This is a lesson that should be learned by everyone about not becoming too dependent on the government.

No argument here. I want all of it gone.

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Sam

First off you didn't pay for your benefits. You paid for Generations before you. Just as I am going to pay for the Generations before me. You aren't entitled the equal amount as those before you because there aren't enough younger Generations to pick up your Generations tab.

The way the system is set up is flawed. A reduction of Benefits needs to happen like it or not. But at least McCain is honest about that.

Senior benefits are paid for by Social Security Tax and Medicare Tax. Those Taxes go directly to those funds. Iraq has nothing to do with you having to suck it up and realize.. the younger generations lack the population to pay for the older generations.

We've spent the last 30 years ignoring this issue. Passing half assed laws to restructure Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and in the end passing it on to the next generation to address.

You will have to take cuts, I will have to take cuts.

Medicare Bankrupt.

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come on you know you wanna play football..

Beagán agus a rá go maith.

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Seniors aren't paying for it... Younger Generations are. 30 years ago (todays Seniors) should have stopped this madness. But they didn't, now they want to throw a hissyfit over it?

Sorry, I am tired of being burdened with everyone else lack of understanding a failed system.

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Pioneers are walking all around singing songs about Lenin and they should be shot for it.

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"If you are looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"- V

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

come on you know you wanna play football..

Beagán agus a rá go maith.

Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87

So Obama and his crowd want a "balanced budget", but also want endless entitlement spending, which RIGHT NOW is 60% of the national budget. Gotcha.

McCain is right, but he isn't going far enough. Medicare and Medicaid need to be progressively weakened and ultimately eliminated. It is not the government's job to keep you healthy.

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who is going to pay for the endless entitlement spending.. especially now that they are going to LIMIT salaries and only tax the rich..

Heck.. Where is the incentive to work to pay for the Obama nonsense? We already pay 50% to the govenrment and obviously Obama wants even more!!

much better to drink vodka and let the other person work hard ...

Cutting spending is a good thing. McCain suggested last night there would be a freeze on federal spending across the board.

But how does Obama propose to cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans (as he claims) while increasing spending dramatically?

Both of these guys are bad for the country but some of you people are still stupid enough to vote for them.

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"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

You are correct.. but a vote for anyone other than the two is a vote for Obama.. If that is OK with you .. fine.

No, damn it! A vote for anyone other than McCain or Obama is a vote for anyone other than McCain or Obama.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Yes, on paper.. but like voting for Perot.. it will give the election to the obviously MOST incompetent presidential candidate ever.

Thank you for showing your stupidity! There is no account with your name on it that you paid into. You've been paying for the benefits of people currently receiving them. If people haven't saved for their own damned retirement, that's their problem. Social Security was NEVER meant to be anyone's sole source of income, it was only meant to keep seniors out of poverty. Even there it's unconstitutional because the federal government does not have the authority under Article I to tax people in order to give the money to other people.

Yes, and we could save a lot of money by getting rid of all the various unconstitutional government programs and agencies. We can save billions of dollars by closing all our foreign bases, bringing our troops home, and stop interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."