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Originally Posted by Giantone

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opini...b04df054f860a1

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For America’s senior population alone, the Republicans’ assault on the safety net is going to be destabilizing and, in many cases, lethal. Currently, 9 out of 10 Americans over 65 receive Social Security. Forty-nine million are on Medicare, estimated to increase to 64 million by 2020. Nearly one-third will require nursing home care, which costs three times the annual income of those over 65. Imagine what an aging America will look like just a few years into the future with no Social Security, no Medicare and no Medicaid.

And yet it was only the Republicans that proposed a plan to fix/ensure long term financial solvency for Social Security (SS). SS will become financially insolvent in about 10 years, this has been known for decades and Paul Ryan and his GOP allies were the only members of Congress to put a proposal on the table to extend that solvency long term (76 years). The Dems have been adamant opponents to plans that would extend SS long term. Since those failures MAGA has captured the GOP and have adapted the Dem plan to oppose any changes or adjustments to SS.