Re: “Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Shield Expected To Cost $500 Billion”

On Thu, 22 May 2025 15:19:21 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 5/22/2025 3:10 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

On 5/22/2025 11:09 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

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Social Security and Medicare will not die until the financial apocalypse
of the United States.  Pray that it does not happen.

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You are not paying attention.  The just passed big ugly bill cuts
a half-trillion dollars from  medicare.  Not to mention the gutting
of medicaid, which will cause many rural hospitals to close outright.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5312712-house-gop-bill-medicare-cuts/

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Not gonna happen, just wishful thinking on your part.  Three million
people a year are joining Medicare (the last of the baby boomers), 65
million or so at the moment, and one million a year are leaving.  That
is a huge voting block.  And seniors vote in the USA.

 That's the common belief -- and I share it.
 But it presupposes that the Republican Party is /sane/.
 Which isn't so bad a presupposition as such, but since Trump controls
the Republican Party, it presupposes that /Trump/ is sane.
 Which some of find to be rather dubious.