I'm sorry if my post implied that. My intent was to show that everone contributes and for anyone to take away Ss, medicare, et al to pay for mismanagement of our countries finances is not the way to go.
Let those who put us in this situation make the sacrifices.
Why do the poor and elderly have to attune for the sins of the rich?
The people who put us in this situation are politicians who decades ago decided it would be a great idea to buy votes with public funds, and deliberately set up programs that pushed the costs into the future instead of paying for themselves. Because, if we had to pay the full cost of the programs from the beginning, we probably wouldn't have been so enthusiastic to have programs like that. We want programs in which we think we are getting more in benefits than we're paying out for them in taxes. But to pull that big of a Madoff-like chicanery off, you have to defer the costs into the future. In a word, a ponzi scheme.
As John Maynard Keynes said, in the long run we will all be dead, which worked out great for those politicians who set up those programs. They're dead and and are regarded as heros of the poor and elderly, even though they set up a system that was doomed to collapse and screw the poor and elderly.
So that's why the poor and elderly (and everyone else) will be atoning for those previous sins. However the "rich" didn't set up our ponzi scheme social safety net, your political heros did.
