I don't know what solutions need to be adopted, but I do know that its a security net Americans need, and it needs to be preserved for our elderly who are in need of it, and for our disabled who did or didn't serve in the armed forces. If we can't take care of our weakest, and most vulnerable we aren't much of country. The rich more than anything want to protect what got them their in the first place. Especially their money.
Spitzer thinks means testing may be the answer to getting it under control. This would eliminate the billionaires and the multi millionaires from receiving what they don't need. Its really disgraceful. For them its just pocket change. Imagine Bill Gates, and Ellison getting the largest amounts social security can pay out each month. Both use their companies as personal ATM's, the biggest racket going.
You may have some good ideas about how they can contribute or should. Ted Turner giving a billion to the UN, could have given it to a program like this or helped to build a Veterans hospital or clinics where none exist. Bob Barker is a good ole soul, he's done alot in helping out the vets, and for the saving of our Whales. Unlike most who want to be called Philanthropist to cover their greed.
The UN is a farce and full of corruption and does little anyway to solve world problems.
Even as a vet I have to do a means test each year to see what I qualify, and don't qualify for. Something I never thought I would have to do. A promise, and guarantee broken by the government, but thats the way it is. Nothing new for them, and something their known for. Whether its was their Treaties to the Native American, the American people, or the Vets.
Whether I'm a vet or not I think we owe our very freedoms to the men and women who put it all on the line for us 24/7 365 days a year. Our WW2 vets are the cream of the crop. The ones that made it back. I hope we can keep them around for many years to come so they can tell those stories about how they kicked the hell out of those Japanese and Germans. Not to take anything away from all those who serve, and served, they aren't the blame for the unjustified situations our government puts them in. Vietnam, and Iraq. Iran is at the core of most of the trouble in the Middle East. It goes largely ignored.
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