QUOTE (CQ1 @ Nov 20 2008, 09:09 AM)

I don't agree 100% with the film and what it said was the way to fix our financial stability and ultimately our national security. With that said IMHO this film is very much propaganda to convince the people that our only hope as a nation is to stop giving retirement checks to the elderly and to stop giving life saving and preventative medical care to the elderly and those who need medical care but cannot afford it in US dollars. I find it interesting that a show about our national defict and an administrations fiscal policies of consumerism was concluded with our only hope is to abandon Social Security, Medicare and Prescription drug plans. Did you know that even when people retire they pay monthly premiums on both medicare and Medicare D (prescription medicine) and copay's on their medicine? Medicare isn't free even after paying into it during their working years.
In the beginning of the movie, it was said in word and in charts that the Social Security Tax and Medicare Tax or FICA tax on earned income paid by both employer and employee is being used to not only pay for the retirees currently drawing Social Security and those currently on Medicare but that tax is being used to pay on our national budget and to service debt. Nowhere in the film does it say that you will stop paying Social Security Tax. But if the makers of this film convince enough people that privatizing Social Security would save us as a nation and offer a future and a hope for our children then popular opinion will change and the people will believe this is the best for our nation. How pray tell will the money being stripped away from Social Security to pay for pork projects, war, trade deficits, national budgets and national debt servicing be recovered if we no longer have Social Security?
That is not being addressed in the movie. You will still have to be taxed at the same rate but not one check will be cut for the elderly. You will have to save for your old age and pay for your current cost of living without that extra (you've earned) in your pocket to do so. Yet, IMHO in less than one generation of abandoning Social Security and Medicare as the only programs to cut that will make a significant difference is embraced, we will have hungry and homeless elderly and many of our sick would not have medical care. But I would also bet their little pets would find new homes but the elderly would end up having to be euthanized. The sick who cannot work would be too. We would have millions of Terry Shiavo's (God bless her soul!) because there would be no money or programs set aside to care for people.
Social Security Numbers were to be used exclusively for the tracking of Social Security Benefits and wages. Does anyone believe that Social Security Numbers will stop being used by corporate America or our government for our identity?The people were promised it would never be used for identity. Even back then people were refusing Social Security because they equated it with the mark of the beast. If America was mostly agriculture and farming perhaps Social Security could be abandoned but even back then people were suffering unto death when agriculture (growing food) was vastly more prevalent and local than it is today. How much more would the masses suffer when the majority live in urban or suburban settings.
I briefly explained IMHO about the movie and the biggest reason I am against abandoning Social Security as it is today. Social Security is NOT an entitlement as in the belief that one is deserving of or entitled to privileges. It is money prepaid through wages EARNED. Just because our government leaders mismanaged those prepaid funds does not mean the people should be hoodwinked into giving up their money paid in advance for when they are old.
The reason why I feel so strongly about this is I was too young to do anything about Roe vs Wade and I will do everything in my power to save the sick and the elderly from suffering a similar fate. Forgive me if I have offended anyone with this rant.
I agree, SOCIAL SECURITY IS NOT AN ENTITLEMENT AS IN THE BELIEF THAT ONE IS DESERVING OF OR ENTITLED TO PRIVILEGES.
IT IS MONEY PREPAID THROUGH WAGES EARNED...AMEN BROTHER OR SISTER
Don't worry it won't hurt much...SOILENT GREEN IS PEOPLE remember that movie? LOL...
and in answer to your Question C, Do you really want to see this

...NO!!!, I didn't watch it....no one is promised tomorrow...sufficient is the Day, his mercies are new each morning...God Bless you and keep you brother.
let em kill me, who cares, what would be worse is live in a WORLD WITHOUT LOVE...
Where can I go from his presence, if I ascend to the heights of Heaven He is there, or to the depths of Hell, My Savior Lives.
JESUS IS LORD.
love you guys, just venting