re: #215 Skip Intro

Teabaggers who are on Medicare don’t think it’s a Federal benefit. “I earned that!”, they’ll rant, “so it’s different from Socialized Medicine.”

Since the GOP has wanted to eliminate Medicare from the day it was created, I don’t think they’ll shy away from it now. They’ll just grandfather in the group their pollsters say they need, then screw everybody else.

Seriously. Regarding the first, I’ve already heard that from at least one guy, whose attitude was “I paid for it, Ive got it coming. You don’t.” I explained to him that, since he started working before Medicare was enacted, and before the 1983 increase in Social Security taxes, I will have paid a lot more as a percentage of my total earnings than he did.

He shut up.

Regarding the second, see Paul Ryan’s first ‘Budget’.