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In reply to the discussion: I waited and I waited for help but all the rich people just stared at me and kept eating. [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Vote for Republicans, isn't it a very curious thing that most Democratic leaders are now to the right of Dwight D Eisenhower?
Maybe it isn't about the party nomenclature - maybe it is what is happening under that nomenclature.
Right now the idea that the age at which us working slobs can achieve the rights to having Medicare is becoming the centerpiece of the "Grand Bargain." On edit: here's the link: http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/12/08/repsonding-to-jon-chait-on-the-suddenly-possible-idea-of-raising-the-medicare-eligibility-age/
I suppose it is good to know how very kind some of the people who are affluent happen to be.
However, those who are affluent will survive to that age, as they have health insurance (Which is a totally unaffordable product, under the Exchange here in California, if you are over 55 and not working at a corporation or already wealthy.)
Over the next few days, it is being decided, by the leaders chosen by the rich, how to help Kissinger achieve the meme of knocking out a whole lot of the population.