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In reply to the discussion: If the Democratic Party allows Medicare or Social Security to be cut, [View all]SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)or savings. The cost of living went up and our wages stayed stagnant or went down. Or they just outright stole our pensions. What the fuck do we do then? When you work 40-50 years putting money into a retirement account only to have it raided by some vulture capitalist leaving you with nothing? I must have missed the day in school when they taught us how to deal with that.
On the other hand some of us get sick. We pay thousands a year into "health insurance" only to be denied coverage for something that ends up forcing us into bankruptcy. But that's our fault too, we should have listened in school when they told us that having "health insurance" doesn't really insure anything. I remember that lesson well.
Yeah, it's all the fault of the dumbasses who didn't listen in school.