House of Cards

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Spoilerish discussion below:

So, how the heck does America Works... work, anyway?  Annihilate Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and plunge their funding into a massive government works program to wipe out unemployment?  I get the appeal of the latter, but what the hell kind of appeal does the former have, if there's apparently nothing to replace them?

AmWorks is said to cost $500 billion, so that'd be about one-third of current annual spending on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. I think those programs' trust funds would actually have the money to spare, because in the previous season Frank masterminded his "compromise" on entitlement spending with the Republicans, which raised the retirement age and basically gutted those programs without reducing the payroll tax.

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Netflix should really stop trying to make original content, they're terrible at it.

just no

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Season 4 was AMAZING

I was foolishly hoping the season 4 would be a resolution of the story. Now we have to wait yet another year...

Season 5 was announced months ago lol