If you're an elected dem who is open to cutting Social Security, or Medicare or S.N.A.P., Fuck you.

[shadowmayor]

283. Social Security has never been a problem

While strong language may not seem helpful, what is harmful is letting the notion that we "must" do something about SS. Social Security has never required a bail-out from the general fund of any note, and in fact over 2 trillion $$ was borrowed against the fund to pay off the interest on our national debt by daddy Bush and Clinton (over $300B in some years) throughout the 1990's. This republican meme that SS is going to run out of money is a chicken-little argument that too many democrats give a pass to. Shame on us. A simple raising of the ceiling to $250K and problem is essentially solved for ever. Medicare needs some funding, but that comes from the fact that so many thrown onto the program are people that private insurers wouldn't touch like dialysis patients and type I diabetes people with a lot of problems. So let's not quibble about the small stuff when the real danger is the fact that cutting SS is even a topic. It shouldn't be! It's a great program that works, and paid for primarily by the working class, and over the last 30 years has been a much better investment than 401K's. And the kicker is, it's a social program so your investment directly helps others unlike a money market fund or some other Wall Street concoction.