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On Thu, 22 May 2025 15:19:21 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 5/22/2025 3:10 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On 5/22/2025 11:09 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>>=20
>>>
>>> Social Security and Medicare will not die until the financial =
apocalypse
>>> of the United States.  Pray that it does not happen.
>>=20
>> 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.
>>=20
>> =
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5312712-house-gop-bill-medicare-cuts/
>
>Not gonna happen, just wishful thinking on your part.  Three million=20
>people a year are joining Medicare (the last of the baby boomers), 65=20
>million or so at the moment, and one million a year are leaving.  That=20
>is a huge voting block.  And seniors vote in the USA.

That's the common belief -- and I share it.

But it presupposes that the Republican Party is /sane/.

Which isn't so bad a presupposition as such, but since Trump controls
the Republican Party, it presupposes that /Trump/ is sane.

Which some of find to be rather dubious.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"