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Draining Social Security's trust fund and perpetuating outlandishly high healthcare costs makes it appear that entitlements seniors rely on are going broke.
In other words, crisis conditions were artificially created. Congressional cassandras claim Social Security and Medicare are unsustainable. Bipartisan chicanery wants big cuts in both programs before privatizing them on route to eliminating them altogether.
Political Washington hypes the problem. So do media scoundrels, Obama's Simpson/Bowles deficit cutting commission, and the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). Their solution is slash, then end America's social contract to transfer maximum wealth to corporate favorites and the nation's super-rich.
A Final Comment
When responsibly run, Social Security and Medicare are sustainable long-term with plenty left over for Medicaid and other vital programs for America's needy. Moreover, if corporations and rich elites paid their fair share, the possibilities are limitless.
If the business of America became peace, less militarism, no wars, making friends, not enemies, retaining high-paying/good benefit jobs at home, letting unions bargain collectively with management on equal terms, making universal free education and single-payer healthcare priorities, ending destructive trade deals, and guaranteeing living wage security, imagine how different things could be.
In addition, if money power returned to public hands and direct democracy serving everyone responsibly replaced duopoly power, near utopian conditions might be realized.
Anything is possible when committed people work long-term for them. If that's not incentive enough, what is?
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