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Gold Member
The Tea Party movement is supposed to be the engine driving Republicans' push for sharp cuts to spending and reform entitlements. Representative Paul Ryan's 2012 budget, which passed the House last week, phases out Medicare for people under 55 and turns Medicaid into block grants. But it turns out that Tea Partiers, like most Americans, strongly oppose cutting Medicare and Medicaid. A new McClatchy-Marist poll shows 70 percent of "Tea Party supporters" oppose cutting those programs--and 80 percent of registered voters agree.
70% of Tea Partiers Don't Want to Cut Medicare Either - Politics - The Atlantic Wire
So, when it comes to something like Medicare and I'd guess Social Security, those anti-socialist become socialist.
Oh, ,the irony!
Of course not, But they do want to fix it. Anyone with a brain understands the system as it stands is unsustainable. The battle is simply on how to fix it. The GOP favors Privatization, Which whether you agree with it or not, you have to admit it is an idea. The Democrats seem to have no idea. Other than Obama care, which actually rapes Medicare, and like Medicare is almost certain to cost many times as much as we are being told.
So if you say no to vouchers for those under 54, then what is your plan to fix Medicare? It is real easy to sit up here and repeat the false Democrat Talking point that the GOP wants to end Medicare. It is much harder to explain how you would address the problem.
Lets hear it.
The plan is quite simple; raise the fucking retirement age and make people work a few years longer. The programs cannot support retirees for the current 13 years. Make people work longer so payments don't begin until age 70. While many people will not like the idea of having to work longer, at least once they do retire, the benefits will be in tact and paid in full. You are correct that we cannot sustain this kind of spending on those programs. However, turning them over to the private market will only drive costs even higher without any safety net for those who will not be able to afford it. And from the numbers I am seeing, less than half of all retirees will be able to afford the private insurance on their own, even with the government subsidy.