General Discussion

There is a reason why SS and Medicare constitute the "third rail" of US politics.

Furthermore, "libertarianism" has already been tried in this country and failed greatly with something called the Great Depression. What does this idiot think people did back then who were poor in old age? They had poorhouses then. My parents had lived through that time, and it was no picnic.

It's like these greedy, sociopathic dimwits have to be schooled again and again and again about history. There is a reason why a "mixed economy" was established. It had to do with preserving capitalism by reining in its worst impulses.