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You assume we have to pay the seniors.

Social security and medicare are both insurance funds. You pay in now to get benefits later.

The current generation of seniors going into retirement spent all their retirement before they retired. They elected the politicians who bankrupted social security through generous tax cuts and costly wars.

The solution isn't an end to social security. The solution is a temporary reduction in benefits for the baby boomers.

That would be fiscal responsibility.



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