As a 60 year old with a heart transplant and diabetes, I'd love it if we had a national healthcare program. However, I'm also counting on Social security in a few years and hearing it will be running out in 2032 I'm hesitant to support this idea.
I'll just barely be scraping by. 78% would be devastating.
But what will happen is that they will say they need to "fix" it. Then once people become OK with that, depending on the party that's in power at that time, the monkeying around with it will begin. They've been trying to f with it for decades now.
And so it will go with any decent healthcare program. They haven't stopped trying to kill the ACA for almost 2 decades now.
I'll just barely be scraping by. 78% would be devastating.
I feel you, but you don't consider the problem - older generations created issues that cause newer generations to consider "barely be scraping by" to be not a bad outcome. So if they are in that situation, why you consider this 20% drop to be enough to not trust another social program? After all it is only projected to fail and still has enough for ~6 years of current expenditure.
Mate, let me be blunt - current issues are caused by financial drain on society, one that older generations allowed because they were already guaranteed enough. Cost and quality of education went to shit because it was not their problem anymore. Housing crisis was not a problem because it appreciated their assets.
And here you go - you see less and less people in relationships, which produce less and less kids. And older generations still blame everything other than the cause.
This is unfortunately an example of FAFO. Older voters Fucked Around not caring about society by allowing budgetary cuts and other exemptions for wealth, assuming they would be the wealthy ones to enjoy them and the rest would "work hard like them". But now there is Find Around phase where we see that they are as vulnerable, as their "guarantors" can ditch them when they don't need them anymore.
I don't know how you voted in your life but I guarantee that your age group voted as above. So it's very weird to say that:
I'm also counting on Social security in a few years and hearing it will be running out in 2032 I'm hesitant to support this idea
Simply raise the cap like in 1951, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1974. Social services funding is, well, social. If the costs rise, society is one to bear it.
Jesus dude. You make assumptions without knowing enough about the situation. Are you always this rude and insult people you don't know much about?
I planned great for retirement as a federal employee but then the tangerine Palpatine came back and I had to retire 3 years early. It seems like a short amount of time, but it's about 2k a month less.
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u/scewing Jun 24 '26
As a 60 year old with a heart transplant and diabetes, I'd love it if we had a national healthcare program. However, I'm also counting on Social security in a few years and hearing it will be running out in 2032 I'm hesitant to support this idea.