Here's the solution to Social Security according to a freeper

[Cleita]

on Thom Hartmann. In the middle of an argument about SS, Thom Hartmann tried to educate him as to why SS came about. It was about old people dying of hypothermia in the winter and food poisoning year around because they were eating things like garbage and dog food. He spouted out that back then few people lived to be sixty-five. Wow! That must be the solution! Kill everyone when they reach the age of 65 and who have lost all their retirement savings due to a bad economy and Wall Street chicanery. Social Security will never be needed. Like why haven't Newt Gingrich, Grover Norquist, Michelle Bachmann and all the other Social Security haters not thought of that yet? A simple an elegant solution that is so in line with their thinking.

:-(

[gkegley]

solution to social security

this is similar to Jonathan Swift's cure for the Irish famine. Eat the babies. Of course he was kidding.

[Cleita]

7. Welcome to DU.

He was trying to shine a light on an injustice. Good for him.

[wryter2000]

12. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[wryter2000]

1. I heard that guy

The perfect example of overly intellectualized lack of concern for other human beings. That guy has citations instead of a heart.

[Cleita]

5. Kill them all!

All those freeloading old farts who paid into their SS all their lives. They don't deserve to get anything back.

[Vickers]

2. Newt is 67.

I'm just sayin'.

:P

[Cleita]

9. He wasn't when he was Speaker of the House

venting his views.

[jtown1123]

3. Actually, life expectancy was 65 because there was a lot of childhood death.

Most people that made it to 65 in those days did live 6-7 years longer.

[Cleita]

4. Maybe if they didn't have to freeze or starve they

might have lived ten to thirteen years longer.

[jtown1123]

6. Bingo! Some people are so clueless/heartless

[patrice]

8. What we do for people over 65 will be there for ALL Americans. That is why some people are

fighting it so hard, even to the point of justifying a genocide of neglect for this country's elders.

Let's face it, elders are HARD to take care of, much harder to take care of than children. Even in situations in which at least lip service is being paid to their care, there is a strong inclination to warehouse and even drug them. It's referred to as using "chemical restraints" for "their own good," of course.

[shanti]

15. logan's run?

we're getting there!

[patrice]

20. It's more common than people think.

So much about elder care depends upon family who are involved and who advocate for their elders. LOTS of people don't have anyone like that. There's a great deal that is legal and that does make it through state surveys that isn't necessarily the best thing for the person.

Actually, my family has learned that just about our entire health care system, for any age group, NEEDS strong well-informed advocacy. Lots and lots of pills being thrown around without much regard for complicated effects. Very trial and error stuff.

[dmr]

10. Wait! Death panels! They're against them, but want to use them.

Quite the quandary. :crazy:

Fear: They're gonna kill your grandma!

Budget: Let's kill your grandma!

It's not funny! :rofl:

:hi:

[patrice]

11. LOL! Thank you for making me laugh!!

:rofl:

[Historic NY]

13. Social Security Death panel....Soylent Green.

[Cleita]

14. Yeah, no need to spend money on funerals and

memorials. Let's recycle those old bastards and make some money out of it!

[patrice]

24. Make us earn our keep: Compost us!

[TheKentuckian]

16. Bring on the Soylent processing centers!

[DirkGently]

17. What kind of world do these people want to live in? They don't think dead people spoil the scenery?

[Cleita]

18. Especially, wrinkled up old dead people.

They stink too.

[patrice]

21. I really do think there are going to be some neat-niks who are going to have a serious problem with

us.

[mrcheerful]

22. The problem with nit wits like that is they actually believe

they will never be old, will be in the same exact health they are today and will be able to do the work of a 20 year old or make a fortune off their expertise on buying stocks. Accidents and health problems are all examples of bad life planning to the nit wits.

[DirkGently]

25. I think that's incredibly, and sadly, accurate. Denial enables lack of empathy.

[pacalo]

19. If Social Security were run in the way it was intended to be run, age should be no factor.

[Xicano]

23. Guarantee you when this freeper gets to retirement age

and isn't rich (which I bet he's not) he'll sing a different toon - for himself or course. He'll continue to harbor his freeper beliefs he currently does. But for himself it'll be a different story. Just like all their talk about war while they sit in their mother's basement.

Freepers are all the same, nothing but ignorant, hateful, hypocritical 'Chicken Hawks'.