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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	Hound - reply, a bit long winded
	Date:	9/17/2011 5:53:32 PM

I defer to your opinions about what businesses would do because I really don't know. I really wish that something had been done back when they first started moving the jobs offshore. Particularly the technology jobs.

I don't think you can take SS and Medicare off the table, but I don't think you can just eliminate those programs. It would create a panic among those who currently depend on those programs. I do think they need to do something about SS disability -- until recently, I had no idea how much of the SS dollars were going in that direction. I'm sorry to say, that I have a cousin who has collected SS disability since he was in his late 20's. While I'm not sure what his "disability" is, it certainly doesn't stop him from doing anything he wants, including hunting in the North country.
I don't think he is alone.

I think they need to re-evaluate SS. My father gets SS, although he has a generous pension. Not a lot -- I think it is about $500 based on his years in the Navy and jobs he held afterward until he found his career. But the point is, he doesn't need it. Yes, he paid in; but the bulk of his wage earning years was not in the SS system.
And although he has a good health insurance plan that he carried into retirement, he was forced into Medicare at 65. He's now 85. Medicare paid for his bypass surgery about 5 years ago. They would have paid for 21 days of in-patient rehab, had he elected to go.

It should be based on need.