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Self-identified liberals and Democrats do badly on questions of basic economics.
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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 745709" data-attributes="member: 4805"><p>To get rid of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security you have to be willing to take on the AARP, and any politician with a clue knows that doing that is a one way ticket out of office because old people vote. Probably the only practical solution is fixing those programs to keep them solvent, but I doubt there's any way to do that without raising taxes and voters don't like that much either. It would be refreshing to hear at least one of our elected officials stand up say to the American public "You want these programs? Fine. <em>But you're going to have to pay for them</em>". That won't happen of course, instead we'll just keep muddling along, half assing it with measures that are politically palatable and economically unsustainable until the whole system finally comes crashing down. </p><p>Then wkmac will finally have his day <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/happy-very.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":happy-very:" title="Happy Very :happy-very:" data-shortname=":happy-very:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jones, post: 745709, member: 4805"] To get rid of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security you have to be willing to take on the AARP, and any politician with a clue knows that doing that is a one way ticket out of office because old people vote. Probably the only practical solution is fixing those programs to keep them solvent, but I doubt there's any way to do that without raising taxes and voters don't like that much either. It would be refreshing to hear at least one of our elected officials stand up say to the American public "You want these programs? Fine. [I]But you're going to have to pay for them[/I]". That won't happen of course, instead we'll just keep muddling along, half assing it with measures that are politically palatable and economically unsustainable until the whole system finally comes crashing down. Then wkmac will finally have his day :happy-very: [/QUOTE]
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