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Social Security & Medicare

appalachiablue

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3. Crushing, the GOP has been threatening this for a long

Reply to ProudMNDemocrat (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 25, 2020, 05:06 PM

Aug 2020

time. FDR created SS in 1935 to help old people, 85 years ago this month.

This action means total destruction, and correct that Medicare and Medicaid are next.

The entire New Deal, Great Society, War on Poverty almost gone; return to no regulation, 'laissez faire' Gilded Age, then feudalism and barbarism.

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Trump's Plan To 'Terminate' Payroll Taxes Would 'Terminate' Social Security By 2023 [View all] appalachiablue Aug 2020 OP

Talk about devistating ... ProudMNDemocrat Aug 2020 #1

Crushing, the GOP has been threatening this for a long appalachiablue Aug 2020 #3

K&R 2naSalit Aug 2020 #2