re: #194 marjoriemoon

Insulting or not (and I don’t think it is at all), Reid is right. The Republican party seems to work overtime to hurt the elderly and minorities. Rick Scott of FL, the crook Republican “outsider” who is very sadly making some progress, wants to drug test welfare recipients. Let’s talk about adding more money to the deficit through drug testing instead of helping out the poor and infirm.

John Boehner wants to raise the retirement age so the rest of us poor slobs have to work until 70, IF we make it to 70.

I have no idea why a Black or Hispanic person would want to vote Republican.

You do realize that social security payments come out of social security taxes? If no change is made on the spending end, then social security taxes have to go up. They already soak up 15 or 20 percent of the poor working slob’s paycheck, if you count the “employer contribution” as really coming from the worker. Young people today don’t have it easy, and the fraction of black and Hispanic among 20-somethings is greater than it is among 60-somethings.

I have no idea why a black or Hispanic person would want taxes raised on working stiffs so that old white people could have a more comfortable retirement.

Well, I do—-because I credit them with having individuality, and individual and highly diverse perspectives and motives. But you see, it’s not as simple as it looks.