dday on Hullabaloo offers a logical rebuttal to the conventional wisdom on Social Security and Medicare, which says that major reforms are needed. Reform, in this case, is just another way of saying that we should scrap two of the most successful government programs in the nation’s history.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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OF COURSE, it is perfectly alright to transfer money from poor minority men to rich white women. OF COURSE, it is perfectly alright to have intergenerational theft. OF COURSE, it is perfectly alright to make the new AMERIKA a socialist workers paradise. (Sound familiar?)
Social Security has been successfully paying benefits for 72 years and Medicare has functioned very well for 42 plus years. Thank God we have these programs. These programs are great for working class people. Ask them how they feel about it. They are quite thankful for them. If not for Social Security and Medicare tens of millions of seniors would have no health insurance and would be totally destitute. I know libertarians would love to have laissez-faire social Darwinism where survival of the fittest is the rule. If you become disabled and can\’t work, well, tough luck. Just get on the corner and beg for alms, that\’s the libertarian solution. We pool our money for roads, bridges, police, fire fighters, EMTs, the judicial system, schools, libraries, the military, etc. I guess libertarians object to those things because they are financed through \”theft.\” Where is the libertarian utopia on the earth, today? Where? Not Ireland since it has socialized health care and free tuition through university. Not India because it has socialistic written into its constitution. Not Hong Kong, it\’s not even a free independent country. If libertarianism is so great why isn\’t there a great advanced libertarian country anywhere?