Comments on: Quote of the Day – Eyes wide shut? http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2011/03/20/quote-of-the-day-eyes-wide-shut/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dr. T http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2011/03/20/quote-of-the-day-eyes-wide-shut/#comment-76888 Dr. T Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:28:11 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=9134#comment-76888 I’m experiencing schadenfreude. Two generations of greedy geezers have participated in the Ponzi schemes of Social Security and Medicare. For over forty years we’ve heard nothing from them except demands for bigger Social Security payments, more munificent Medicare coverage, reduced premiums, reduced copays, etc. Now the 900-pound gorilla of centrally dictated medical care rationing thumps his chest, and I just sit back and say, “What did you expect? Did you think those Ponzi schemes could last forever?”

My wife and I are 56 and 55 years old. We started planning our retirement 25 years ago, and we did not factor any Social Security or Medicare benefits into those plans. Both programs will either be discontinued or restricted via means tests during our lifetimes. Those of us who saved for retirement (and contributed most heavily to both programs through payroll taxes) will be screwed out of benefits. But, if our “wealth” makes us ineligible for Medicare, we’ll at least have the comfort of rationing medical care ourselves.

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