The #GOP’s gleeful plan to gut #SocialSecurity and #Medicare should terrify all Americans regardless of age. If you’re “young” and “healthy” and shrugging it off, please consider how you’d ever pay off your student debt, buy a home, start a business, put your kids through college, or save for retirement with your parents and in-laws dependent on YOU for their housing, medical care, and other expenses. A great nation doesn’t leave its elders to drown in destitution after a lifetime of hard work.
@CinnamonGirlE @cassandra17lina
They will lose their shirts in 24 if they do this....or worse yet, try to privitize it which would be a total disaster.
@Jacki @cassandra17lina
Privatization would be a nightmare absolutely. And while I want them to lose their seats. I don't want to lose SS/Medicare in the future.
@cassandra17lina Poverty rates among elderly Americans plummeted after Social Security went into effect, and Social Security continues to keep people from sinking into poverty. https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/social-security-lifts-more-people-above-the-poverty-line-than-any-other#:~:text=Without%20Social%20Security%20benefits%2C%2037.8,benefits%2C%20only%209.0%20percent%20do.
@cassandra17lina Like Social Security, Medicare prevents poverty: https://medicareadvocacy.org/50-insights-for-medicares-50th-anniversary-insight-2-medicare-reduced-poverty/
@cassandra17lina
I cannot even imagine what the country would be if we strip Social Security and Medicare. Total chaos and an unrepairable disaster that will kill. Yes, kill people.
#politics