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On 5/22/2025 2:47 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
> In article <SwLXP.1070635$C51b.70661@fx17.iad>,
> Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:
>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On 5/22/2025 11:09 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Social Security and Medicare will not die until the financial apocalypse
>>> of the United States.  Pray that it does not happen.
>>
>> You are not paying attention.  The just passed big ugly bill cuts
>> a half-trillion dollars from  medicare.  Not to mention the gutting
>> of medicaid, which will cause many rural hospitals to close outright.
>>
>> https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5312712-house-gop-bill-medicare-cuts/
> 
> Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

No workhouses but last I knew the US has a larger percentage of its 
population in prisons than just about every over nation on the planet.

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