Why won't the Government make it easy for the people over 65 ? They earned it.?

Answer 1

I so agree with you on this subject. The government is allowing the immagrants to live better than our parents and grandparents who founded and bulit this country. They also let all of these deadbeats get on medicaid and not pay a thing for it and make the elderly pay for their health insurance. Whats up with that.

Answer 2

I have mixed emotions about this subject. I think the government has put more money into health care for ppl over 65 then for everyone else. I feel we put too much focus on the over 65, than the general concern, which is everyone being given health care opportunities at a low cost. The government can not please everyone and if they make is extremely easy for ppl over 65 to receive health care then they will be pushed to make it even easier for everyone else, which may lead to the idea of universal health care. Of course with this government, nothing is easy unless you are extremely wealthy!
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Answer 3

Just because someone has lived 65 years does not entitle them to anything let alone a handout. Social security, as it's name suggests is a socialist welfare program.

The government needs to return every dime that they have taken for social security to the people that they taken it from or to the descendants or spouse of people that have passed away prior to getting their stolen money back. If people want a easy retirement they should save their hard earned money or invest it.

The way social security is run, the government would prefer that you work hard your whole life, smoke, do drugs, and die of a heart attack, stroke or kill yourself at age 64 and never get married or have kids so that they can keep your money and extend this social welfare program for the elderly.

Answer 4

Your questions are wrong on both counts. First, you assume the government will not make it easy for seniors. The government, our laws, give special privileges to people over 65: social security, medicare, prescription coverage are some examples.
The US government owes security to all citizens, equally. The government does not have a constitutional responsibility to "cut anyone a break." All citizens are supposed to have equal opportunity.
Your second question assumes seniors earned something for getting older. You are referring to millions of people in a class of people. Some have lead useful lives, some have been "takers" all of their lives.
The issue/problem is Socialism. The government determined that older workers should be forced to retire. Go back to the days of Franklin Roosevelt.
Someone in government then decided that, if older workers are forced to retire - to give up income - then it's the government's responsibility to look after them.
Before Social Security, people worked until they died, or until they chose not to work. No one in government told them when to work or not work.
There is the cost issue to consider. We are looking at major financial problems in the future with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. Someone has to pay for all of these benefits. Someone also has to pay for the huge government bureaucracies that run these programs: again, your tax dollars at work.

Answer 5

its simple we can not afford it .23,000,000,000 in pension fund bail outs from raiders already and growing.RAIDER"S college graduates with degrees like mba's spend time making themselves and there bosses money .HOW do you do this without actually working.LEVERAGED BUYOUT is the answer and all those companies who had healthy pension funds stood as targets for the rich to get more without working.pension funds where the backbone of many companies in america once bought out these funds where stolen ,payed out in ceo salaries stocks which the ceo and board of directors had been given plenty of to dismantel a healthy corporation and finaly a huge payout to stock holders the majority of whom where the board and the orchestrators of the buy-out (hostile take over).NOW we have millions of people over age 65 getting less then they barggined for during there working years and the government is running billions behind each year as more and more people retire and want to collect the money.AMERICANS WERE SCREWED BY THE COLLEGE CROWD WHO STOLE A LIVING OFF THE BACKS OF HARD WORKING AMERICANS AND HAVE THE NERVE TO SAY YOU COULD OF MADE A BETTER LIVING HAD YOU GONE TO COLLEGE AND LEARNED TO STEAL LIKE I DID .OPPS THEY LEAVE OUT THE STEAL PART ALWAYS .

Answer 6

Because, they didnt earn it.

Only someone of great hubris would think that you must be supported after you reach some magical age.

The only one's who earn it are the people who save for their retirement.

Note the EARNING part of this.

Social Security is a base, where people can survive. They paid for their parents, and we pay for ours. the real problem is, there is less and less of us and more and more of them.. See Abortion, Contraception, and Life expectancy as reasons.

We pay for our elderly out of respect, but we cannot expect the same benefits. The next generation will probably not be able to support us.

Just because we support the elderly currently doesnt mean we EARN the right to be supported.

Answer 7

It is not the function of the government to make life easy for anyone, regardless of their age. However, if there is true need, it is primarily the function of the family to meet that need. Absent a family, the responsibility falls to the community.

Answer 8

If the government hadn't given away the SS twice , years ago , we would have plenty of money for everyone that will need it . If they hadn't sent all our jobs overseas we would still have money for the baby boomers coming up to retirement . Thanks to the government , they didn't invest the money correctly . And now they want us to invest it , when they are the reason SS is not solvent . Check out the history on SS .

Answer 9

I already saw a very dubious answer.

Social Security would have been fine if the government quit stealing OUR MONEY (We paid it, the government didn't) and never paying it back!! With the same interest and penalties they charge when you owe money on your Taxes!!


"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
—Confronted by political opposition, Bush explains his strategy on promoting Social Security reform. (Washington Post, "The Ostrich Approach," Dan Froomkin, May 25, 2005)

Answer 10

because of the baby boom at the end of WW2 it has more on the wagon than pulling so their is a shortage,and as people live longer ir compounds the crisis.lol I am retired voice of experience