I was at Think Progress this morning. I read how Marco Rubio said that Medicare and Social Security made the average person lazy and dependent. I am old enough to remember when average workers in the United States got pensions as part of their income. As a safety net, Social Security was there for people whose company had no pension or circumstance made it impossible to live on the pension.
The government then made incentives for 401K's to be the new retirement plan, making sure that Wall Street got their cut of the retirement of the average worker. Wall Street then turned into a casino, and gambled with everyone's retirement. The people who haven't had to cash in their 401K to live, are worried that it may not be there when they retire. The Republicans want to vilify Social Security, and Medicare. I have heard this over and over. That is the first step to ending it. They have outsourced good jobs, they have called Americans who are unemployed because of their actions, lazy. They have made an economy where a million people, apply for 60,000 jobs at McDonald's. And the last vestige of hope for the Elderly, Medicare and Social Security, they are attacking.
What is next? Will we end up in a world like Logan's Run, where everyone over a certain age is put to death? Will we just make sure that elderly people are so poor that they commit suicide or starve to death? If this is not evil, I do not know what is.
The government then made incentives for 401K's to be the new retirement plan, making sure that Wall Street got their cut of the retirement of the average worker. Wall Street then turned into a casino, and gambled with everyone's retirement. The people who haven't had to cash in their 401K to live, are worried that it may not be there when they retire. The Republicans want to vilify Social Security, and Medicare. I have heard this over and over. That is the first step to ending it. They have outsourced good jobs, they have called Americans who are unemployed because of their actions, lazy. They have made an economy where a million people, apply for 60,000 jobs at McDonald's. And the last vestige of hope for the Elderly, Medicare and Social Security, they are attacking.
What is next? Will we end up in a world like Logan's Run, where everyone over a certain age is put to death? Will we just make sure that elderly people are so poor that they commit suicide or starve to death? If this is not evil, I do not know what is.
