Greg Snyder
October 16, 2018 ·
If you are retired and want to do something useful, please consider doing something like joining AARP or ACLU or Southern Poverty Law Center or any other group that advocates for regular people. See if you can be involved in working with these groups to do outreach and work for political reform that will help to protect the future. The fantasies of a very small group of obscenely rich individuals like the Koch brothers who have funded multiple think tanks over the last several decades have come up with a lot of creative ways to buy the government and then have it dismantled. They are now feverishly at work on trying to keep their tax cuts, which really only benefit the obscenely rich and make them even more obscenely rich by having their republican congressmen and senators trying with all their stealth to gut Social Security and Medicare to pay for the tax cuts they and Trump have put into place and which have in the last year added 789 billion dollars to the budget which the republicans are saying are caused by “entitlement” programs. Each individual American worker has paid into the Social Security Trust fund since the first hour they started working and have alway contributed to it in all the work that they have done. It is not an “entitlement”. It is a savings account that every worker has paid into. And that money does not belong to the politicians who are trying to divert it away from its purpose of helping people live in retirement. Nor was it ever intended to be a piggy bank that Congress use to pay for unauthorized or even authorized wars without paying what it borrowed back. That money is not for borrowing. Congress owes the Social Security trust fund trillions of dollars that it has “borrowed”. Congress needs to pay that money back.
The republicans have been pushing idea that Medicare and Social Security cause the national debt. They say it over and over again and have been saying this for a long time. It is an outright lie. But they have been repeating this lie over and over for a long time and now they are really pushing hard for this lie to become a reality. If retired people who have a lot of free time now use some of that time to get involved and help in any way they can, it could help ensure a future that continues to have Medicare, (hopefully an expanded Medicare for all), and Social Security (that should also be strengthened and expanded and could be done easily simply by removing the cap on income that is taxed and currently capped at some hideously low income limit) not just for the rest of the newly retired workers lives to live out the rest of their lives, but for future generations. Do people want to see their children and grandchildren and future generations living in a world where they no longer have these programs? If you care, you will help if you can. It could make a crucial difference. If not, the republicans and the Koch brothers will create a future of deprivation, despair, poverty and increased disease and earlier death because they will have decimated American health care. And now they have a Supreme Court that will absolutely back them up in those efforts. So, it’s kind of either get involved, or help seal the fate of future generations. A future without hope.
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