Reply #116: Why do you not talk about military spending? Why do you call SS an entitlement? [View All]

[Mountainman]

The government has the money to fund SS but it us used for other things. Gore would have had a lock box on the trust fund. That's what is needed. SS is not an entitlement. It is money paid in by wage earners and their employers. It is not the government's to play with and it is owned by the workers. They are not entitled to anything they are owed that money!

If we would cut military spending and stop transferring wealth from the middle class to corporations and the wealthy via government borrowing and spending for war and it's tools we would have more than enough money to pay for Medicare, SS and Govt Pensions.

Spending on social programs is why many of us pay taxes. We want the money to improve the general welfare as the constitution states it should do.

We all pay into health care either through insurance, private pay or through taxes. Cut out the profit motive and all that money could be used in a single payer system that would not raise taxes.

Your problem is that you think along the lines of conservative ideology and you can't see things through any other paradigm.