Health Care

Michael A. Barlow said:

Here's a challenge for you: come up with a better two-word name than "death panel" for this bit of government "assistance".

Cost cutting
Down sizing

Yep. Call it *anything* as long as what you call it gives no clue to what it actually *is* ...

Luca Grella said:
Social security is an agreement between generations, ...

Conveniently, the agreement is made before the next generation is old enough to vote. It's not actually an "agreement" if only one party to the discussion is doing the agreeing ...

a ponzi scheme is a financial
scam done for the profit of whoever starts it.

That certainly sounds like Social Security to *me*.

There is a big difference.

This is a meaning of the word "big" with which I was previously unacquainted.

The mechanism of social security insures the retiree an income, regardless of market fluctuations.

Until the government decides it can no longer afford its Social Security obligations or that "next generation" that was *forced* into the "agreement" gets sick to death of seeing a large chunk of their income go south.