Social Security is not that tough, John McCain says. Just sit down across the aisle — blah, blah, blah.
Didn’t he say he was going to answer the question?
As for Medicare — another commission?
I’m still waiting for the answer to the question, by the way.
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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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McCain thinks that Social Security is an outrage. He will privatize it or gut it into oblivion. He will do the same to Medicare and Medicaid, impose huge cuts. We have $700,000,000,000 for Wall Street, no problem, we have $10,000,000,000 a month for Iraq, no problem but Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, forget about it. Jaysus, Social Security is 73 years old and was born in the depths of the Depression and worked through wars and recessions but the GOP still wants to destroy it. Medicare and Medicaid are 43 years old and are a boon to the elderly, disabled and the poor. Without Medicare and Medicaid you could add another 80 to 90 million people to the ranks of the 46 millions uninsured. All the other affluent, industrialized democracies have some form of universal health care but some how it\’s just not possible in the \”richest\” (???) and most powerful country on earth?