re: #919 Kruk

I wasn’t speaking about you personally at all, but about Medicare and Social Security in general. With greatly increased life expectancy, increasing health care costs and the losses taken in the recent crisis, we’ve reached the point where they are paying out more in benefits than they are taking in. That’s only going to get worse with the boomer bulge, which can only be sustained by younger taxpayers paying for benefits to others they are unlikely to get themselves. That’s why I don’t see Medicare or Social Security as being different from any other entitlment, and hypocritcal to put them in a seperate ‘deserving’ category.

asserting that younger taxpayers are not going to recieve medicare or SS benefits requires a Delorean that only goes up to 88 mph