First Baby Boomer Asks for Social Security Benefits

Quote from piezoe:

Making Social Security sound for many years to come is a trivial problem easily solved.

Medical costs, well that's a different kettle of fish. The best solution is to break the AHA-AMA-FDA-Insurance-Drug-Industry cartel and go to a competitive system. Let capitalism and free enterprise operate. If we refuse to act, as we most likely will until there is a crisis of monumental proportion, the pain of correcting the problem will be worse, because we will end up with socialized medicine, which is perhaps better than the present but much worse than the alternative. It's unlikely that we will adopt the best solution because too many vested interests will be financially hurt. These vested interests are like the monkey that refuses to let go of the banana so can't get it's hand out of the box, and thus gets caught.

Obviously, something dramatic must eventually be done simply because we can not go on for too many more years with medical costs far out pacing inflation. That would lead ultimately to our entire gross domestic product being spent on medical care, and it's obvious to all that that will not happen, because it can't.

In my town, the both "non-profit" hospitals plant the medians on the major thoroughfares with trees and flowers. It's lovely. Apparently it has never occurred to them to plant fewer flowers and reduce patient costs. It is also eye opening to find that physician charges, high though they may be, average only about 7% of total bills. Something is drastically wrong. Perhaps in the future Blue Cross/Blue Shield Board members will have to suffer through with only one set of alligator luggage. Wouldn't that be dreadful?

Cheerio.
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You're right.Government can solve all the problems!
 
Quote from arealpissedgoy:

and they can't figure out why they paid property taxes so you could go to school for free
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Who went to school for free????

There is no such thing as a free education....
 
Quote from S2007S:

Who went to school for free????

There is no such thing as a free education....
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Exactly. The terms 'free education' and 'free healthcare' should be banned; bc they do not exist and are misleading to the avg idiot who votes for politicians
 
Quote from S2007S:

Who went to school for free????

There is no such thing as a free education....
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Really? Ask the single mother on welfare living in public housing with 3 kids in high school. The old couple living alone in their own home pay property taxes to pay for the single mothers kids. The old couple do not get any benefit from paying property taxes, however, for the single mother, education is free for the family. Otoh, when these kids join the workforce and pay SS, they don't get any benefits, the benefit goes to the old couple.

And yes, there is such a thing as free education. Ask your secretary of state.
 
Quote from ultimaonliner:

Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate who has the right, general idea regarding our entitlement systems.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWfIhFhelm8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG_HuFtP8w8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCM_wQy4YVg
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Though i sent him a few bucks because his message is important, I disagree strongly with his position on social security. He wants to keep it for those already invested in the system but move to private accounts for younger people (who already have this option as a supplemental). That is a super major, mistake. Of all the people who should correctly understand the social security system, i thought Ron Paul would. But either he doesn't, or he is so hardened in his libertarian views that he can not see the forest for the trees. I will say this for him though, he is consistent with very few exceptions, abortion being one of the issues where he is inconsistent. On that issue he breaks from his stance on individual rights and self determination. He would argue that life begins at conception and therefore a woman has no right to an abortion because she would be harming "someone else." The fallacy of this argument is obvious. Though life begins at conception, human life does not. The idea that a fertilized egg is a human being is an illogical religious belief that is not supported by facts. If it is just life that we want to protect, and not human life, than we should not be stepping on cockroaches. A fertilized egg is not a human being.
 
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