The biggest threat facing America today is the Republican Party.

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Republicans. Period/full stop

This is how the system works.

Raygun changed the Social Security rules and the baby boomers double paid. They paid for their parents retirement And their own retirement. The baby boomer retirement money is the trillions in the Social Security trust fund. That money will draw down as the baby boomers use it to retire.

Medicare and Medicaid have problems because our meical system is so over priced and inefficient. The whole medical system needs to be fixed before Medicare and Medicaid will improve. But remeber this: No One gets any Medicare benefits if someone has not paid in. You get Medicare because you paid your taxes into it. A child with a disability gets Medicare because their parents paid in. Medicare is Not free to anyone.

that Boomers and the Xers have been paying since Reagan.

people better wake up before the republican party takes their ssi, medicare, medicaid and help away...90% of old people rely on it to survive, but still end up voting for these bastards that would leave them on the side of the street eating out of the trash can.

Do we get our tax money back since Ryan doesn't want to use it for what we paid it in for? Either provide our prepaid retirement benefits to us old people or give us back our tax money.

Paul Ryan is a maggot. He and his kids will never need SS because his family is worth $8 million.

We have no right to receive Social Security benefits or to have any of the tax we paid refunded. There's nothing in the Constitution or the law to stop sociopaths like Ryan from cutting us off. The only thing that prevents them from doing it is political pressure.

SELF-PAID, PRE-PAID BENEFITS!

because we paid into the program for decades, just like you are ENTITLED to own your house after you’ve spent years paying off your mortgage.

I paid in to SS for decades and since I am over 62 I am entitled to receive it if I want it.
It's an entitlement.

Is news people allow him to get away with the lies. People get SS and Medicare because they paid for those benefits over 3 decades or more. Paul Ryan wants the government to steal their money. Why don't Paul Ryan give up the Congressional retirement money that he will start drawing for life next year? Afterall, he is worth $2 million and his wife is worth another $6 million.

I am ok with wealthy people chosing to forego SS and Medicare benefits because they do not need the money, but even that should be voluntary.

In their evil world the wealth and freedoms belong only to the
very,very few who "win". They have and are committing crimes
against humanity and should be treated accordingly.

I frequently listen to NPR and when News comes on, they broadcast snippets from Trump -- who inevitably is spouting something which is verifiably UNTRUE. NPR just leaves it standing there, which makes it appear that Trump's lie is fact. That is not responsible journalism, IMHO. I note that when I listen to CBC and a politician's recorded statement is broadcast, it's always prefaced, or followed up with, the facts -- which have been noted and verified.

Republicans have been masters at distortion. The word "entitlement" has been distorted to mean that only the "elites" (another distorted word) think they are owed SS and Medicare etc. And the plebes who vote for them have been brainwashed enough to believe everything they are spoon-fed.

Freaking Ann Rand POS....

What a POS.


And he will be old...someday. And mighty comfortable.

Edit: Plus he gets to keep and use any leftover campaign money, which for him is likely millions of dollars.

There is no reason we should not be producing 40-50% of what we consume. We don't even make the clothes we wear, or the shoes on our feet.

We love cell technology, but won't build phones in America.. but they are sold here for a high prices AS IF they were produced by American labor.

No one should upgrade their phones, until the brand makers, produces 50% of their products in America.
Keep the one you got for the next 2 yrs... I bet we'd see quickly Apple and Others, building Phones in America....and they'd do it in record time.

If people decided not to buy Nike for the next year.. we'd see Nike pull out all stops and build Factories in America and pay people a living wage in doing so.... And they'd not have to raise the sales price of the tennis shoes.

We already pay a cost as if it was built with $20 average labor... !!!!!! When we realize these things, we can change everything....

I purchased American made jeans, made in a mainland US clothing company by people that are someone's neighbors in a US state. The jeans last as long as Levis and cost less. Why is that, if American labor run up the price? The answer is that the American company does not have a large host of $1+ million per year executives or big branding campaigns, it has local owners, workers, workers benefits and that is it.

The republicans want to drive more wedges to balkanize Americans -- this wedge between the young and the old is especially insidious. How vile.

But if Ryan succeeds in doing what you mentioned, democrats would have allowed that to happen by not explaining to Americans how SS and Medicare work. The people drawing now it will be drawing soon HAVE PAID for those benefits, they are not taking money from current payees.

We have a fucking $1.4 trillion dollar deficit NOW because his ass pushed through giveaways to the rich.

is that Baby Boomer started retiring before Obama was elected and continued to retire increasingly throughout his two terms, during which time the deficit was cut by two thirds. If anything, some Baby Boomers are beginning to die off now.

The baby boom lasted from 1946-1960. The oldest boomers have been drawing for close to ten years, over half are drawing now.

Paul Ryan is a liar. The issue that I have is he goes unchallenged with his lying.

His entire house of cards is built on the crumbling foundations of a failed economics policy. The idea being if we just didn’t have so many old people, the Horse and Sparrow theory would work as advertised. Otherwise the only other conclusion you can draw is the prime directive of the GOP is to funnel money to the wealthiest Americans.

For accepting outside $$$ from another country during the 2016 election
Knowing what was going on and allowing it to proceed without regard for the country and it’s oeople
You’ve gotten too large for your britches Ryan
Time to be taken down

plan. The aging and ill will die sick and penniless. More food, etc is for the younger GOP voters. Geez, he probably would turn older people into Soylent Green crackers in his basement if he could.

after his father died?

I really think our government leaders need to retire. Without their pension handouts, because we don't want them to mooch all their lives.

Clearly, whoever it was, knew Ryan’s desires quite well.

All Republicans and many Democrats need to see this video. Explained by Sam Seder and Ronald Reagan.

Entitlements my ass. You can call them "fuzzy bunnies" if you want, but they ain't that either, you smarmy, lying sack of shit.

What part of "paid into with every paycheque of a worker's life" don't you get? Is it because you haven't earned an honest nickel in your life, yet somehow feel the need to shit on people for collecting what is their due? I guess you have also forgotten the College Years. Those halcyon days when you got through school on the public's dime?

Goddammit you make me sick. At this moment, you are at the top of my Most Hated List. And, at this moment, it feels like it's going to take an awful lot for someone to vault over you. Fuck off and die..