Rodger Wetzel, Bismarck, column: Time to speak out on Social Security, Medicare
March 17, 2012 at 7:05 pm in Grand Forks Herald
North Dakotans have earned a say by paying into Social Security and Medicare for years, and they deserve to know what changes politicians are putting on the table. Continue Reading
The real cause of Social Security’s money problem is shipping our good paying, Living Wage Jobs over seas and replacing them with part time, minimum wage jobs.
Lower wages means less money payed into Social Security. Also less money payed into Medicare. There is nothing wrong with Social Security that getting our Living Wage Jobs back into this country for American Citizens, will not fix. It is that simple.
Single Payer Universal Health Care is the fix for Medicare. Every other civilized country and many not so civilized countries have some form of universal health care, why not us, US? How can we be the Greatest nation on earth, if we can’t/won’t even take care of our own citizens? Other countries cover everyone, at far less cost than we do just for those than can afford it. Why is that?
Tying Social Security to the General Budget is a con job to further destroy Social Security, nothing more. In the next round of budget cuts, Social Security in now venerable.
The debt and deficit was and still is caused by the tax cuts for those most able to pay and the Bush II Administration’s wars of choice, that he put on the credit card. The fix, besides stop generating more new terrorists with our needless, for-corporate-profit wars? Raise taxes back up to where they need to be to pay for what is needed to be done. Stop the wars, thereby saving many tens of Billions of dollars for needed infrastructure repair in this country, that also would generate hundreds of thousands of Living Wage Jobs, through spin-off jobs, jump starting the economy, insuring Social Security would be solvent far, far into the future.
Basically undo EVERYTHING the last Administration did and the current crop of Republicans are still doing.
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1. The FIRST thing that needs to be addressed is the “how and why” of AARP stabbing it’s own members in the back by agreeing with politicians who want wrong and injust changes to Social Security and Medicare. I am not an AARP member, and I do not ever expect to become an AARP member based in part on their counterproductive cooperation with criminal politicians.
2. The attacks on Social Security began in the ’60′s when the Social Security trust fund was raided to pay for the Vietnam “police action”. Social Security has been in trouble ever since. Congress cannot know about a pool of money and not find stupid things to spend it on.
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