Social Security Haters Want To Cut Medicare And Social Security
Cutting Social Security and Medicare is one of the Social Security Haters’ top priority. They are one of the most prominent lobbies in Washington. It includes The Washington Post, which constantly points to the need to cut Medicare and Social Security in its editorial pages, and certain foundations which dedicate hundreds of millions of dollars to the cause. Many prominent members of Congress are also a part of this large lobby group.
The primary focus of the Social Security Haters is on the need to cut Social Security and Medicare as they consider that both programs produce injustice for future generations. The cost of these two programs is to be paid by future generations, they say, and thus it brings about a tremendous generation inequity. But it is evident that these concerns are more likely based on the enormous cost of maintaining an almost bankrupt health care system rather than on retirement programs.
The United States should urgently focus on fixing its health care system. If health care programs were meeting requirements, even the most horrifying nightmares of the Social Security Haters would dissolve into thin air. Sadly, it is clear that the real agenda of the Social Security Haters is not fixing the health care system, as that would imply confronting other interest groups such as the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance lobby and the doctors’ lobby. The real agenda of the Social Security Haters is to cut Social Security and Medicare.
Though there are many aspects to discuss about the Social Security Haters’ goals, a single example is enough to understand their true intentions. As the housing bubble recently collapsed we could see that one of the results was a dramatic stock market plunge. This financial disaster brought with it a $15 trillion loss of wealth for retirees and old workers. Now everyone can see this as an obvious transfer of wealth from seniors to younger people. The young generation is going to buy houses and corporate capital at a very low price. A few years ago they would have expected to pay far higher prices for the same stocks and houses.
But the Social Security Haters don’t seem to notice this and many other aspects of the social reality. They just continue their war against Social Security and Medicare. As they ignore the wealth transfer to the young, and fail to notice other issues as well, we should be aware that the Social Security Haters’ real concern is not the so called generational inequity but cutting Medicare and Social Security.
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