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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 812852" data-attributes="member: 22662"><p>So how does Europe and Asia do it?  We agree on wise spending, but cutting off both feet in able to run the coming marathon makes no sense.  Nor does wise spending even necessarily mean less spending.  As far as SS and Medicare and Medicaid, SS is not broke, nor would it even be in any danger whatsoever if the SS tax that the government has been collecting for half a century hadn't been spent on everything else.  Medicare and Medicaid while expensive  are also very popular programs.  It is not uncommon to have people rail against socialized healthcare yet decry any cuts against these programs which are in essence socialized healthcare.</p></blockquote><p></p>