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       Speaker Paul Ryan and about 100 House Republicans are pushing to slash Medicare and Social Security. Now ain't that nice. It's been a long time goal for Republicans to eliminate those two most successful and popular government programs. Why would they want to harm so many people? Why would they go against the grain on this?
       Its a simple answer. They're trying to pay for the huge tax cuts for the wealthy and modest cuts for everyone else. See, after so many years of fighting the debt and deficit, they've caused the single quickest expansion to the debt and deficit with the tax cuts. Can't have that blemish on their record, so they've decided to look for ways to pay for it. The question was how?
       Well the first thing they thought of was to cut everything they could get away with. When they realized they could do that and there'd be no outcry, they went for the brass ring, Medicare and Social Security. They think it'll work. They think their long time goal will be realized. The question you have to ask yourself is; do you want to get less in your monthly SS check and do you want to have to pay more for medical bills? After all, the Republicans never liked either of those programs.
       On Social Security, they, along with their Democrat partners syphoned off all the money we've paid into the program and the Republicans started claiming SS was going broke and it wasn't taking in enough to continue to pay the retired folks. The problem is there's never been an honest accounting of all the money they took out and spent on other programs so they wouldn't have to raise taxes to pay for those programs.
       Social Security isn't broke. It owns all those other programs. It's time for those programs to start paying SS the rent. Either the programs or Congress. And remember Social Security wasn't given to us, we earned it. We paid into it every payday and now we're getting it back. The problem with Congress is they forgot that and they also forgot to pay us interest on that money.