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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder
The wealthiest Americans have been hording the entirety of the United States' economic growth for the past 20 or so years. Their wealth has exploded while the middle class has remained stagnant. There is plenty of money to go around and to fund these programs. I resent conservatives feigning responsibility rhetoric while the middle class gets bent over.
Many of you might not realize the state of America's poor but leaving them to fend for themselves is so dramatically stupid. These people have close to nothing and they are getting more and more pissed off. Beyond that, more and more Americans are being pushed out of the middle class and becoming poor. You're risking the economic health and political stability of the world's only Democratic super power, for no good reason.
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The wealthiest Americans have been ABLE to hoard all that money because the government has made it easy for them to do so.
Nobody is saying that we should cut SS. We're saying that it needs to be 'tweaked' to make sure it survives longer than the 25 years that its projected to pay out benefits. 2050 would be better.
Also, the middle class needs jobs. It needs a healthy, stable economy. It needs a level playing field, where they don't get bent over paying more taxes, while the big corporations and billionaires get away with paying nothing because they're exploiting all the loopholes possible.
Fix those problems and you're well on the way to reducing the huge discrepancy between the classes.