Elderly woman rips Jeb in townhall: "I paid into that for years - now you want to take it away?

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44. If we are not entitled to Medicare and Social Security then they are not

entitled to their dividends, stock price increases, interest, bonuses or capital gains or whatever it is they live on.

We invested our money in the Social Security fund. The government borrows form that fund, pays interest to it, and the interest accrues to the fund from which our benefits are taken. In addition, our benefits could be paid from the money now paid in Social Security taxes, however, the fact is that we paid extra so that we would have a trust fund ready for our retirement since there are so many of us.

Jeb Bush is just trying to cheat seniors.

I realize that Medicare is not paid from a trust fund, but, sorry, medical and nursing home care is expensive. Nobody can foresee how much money their care in their final years will require. Without Medicare, seniors would not be able to take advantage of the developments of medicine and science that prolong life and everybody including the 1% would lose out if that technology and medicine were not used much and therefore cost even more than it does now.

Jeb Bush is simply wrong in his views on Medicare and Social Security. Medicare makes a lot of progress in medicine possible. And without it seniors would die unable to benefit from medical procedures and medications we now have. We would not be able to afford medicine when we most need it -- when we are very old and very sick.

We need Medicare much more than we need our oversized military. We need to be able to defend our country. We don't need to be able to invade any country on earth. And we need to be able to live healthy lives as long as possible.