Wait…you and your family are living off of the state, and yet you would want to deny social security to future retirees who are right now paying taxes for your care? Honestly- if we end up with a bunch of senior citizens who are homeless and starving, how long do you think it will take our legislators to legalize “merciful euthanasia” to “end their suffering”? I really doubt that it would discourage abortions, either. We’d see a lot more of the attitude: “well, we can kill them now or let them suffer a long life with no hope and kill them later”.
I certainly don’t have a problem with insurance for low income moms and children, but many retirees are also low income. Many of them were promised benefits by their workplaces, only to now see those promises and benefits disappearing because the companies aren’t bringing in enough profit to ensure that the CEOs aren’t all bringing in 7-figure salaries. Many seniors already have to choose whether it’s more important to eat or to buy life-saving prescription meds each week, and this is after they’ve received their social security check. These are the people who paid taxes so that we could go to school, have city services, etc. Many of them are the parents (and grandparents, aunts, uncles) who raised us, the doctors and nurses who treated us, the neighbors who watched us, the teachers who taught us, the police officers and firefighters who protected us, the manufacturers who worked long hours in dangerous conditions so that we could have things to buy in stores. To do away with the only source of income for many of them is cruelty.
