The last time the GOP tried this, they lost the 2012 election and also blew a couple of special elections where the issue came up because it basically came down to, "Republicans want your grandmother to eat dog food and have to cut her blood pressure pills in half so rich people can get more tax cuts."
And to those who would argue that it only applies to people 30 years from now, it doesn't matter. This election proved how much a certain segment of this country cares about looking after "their own kind." They don't want the Republicans to deny their white children and grandchildren the Medicare benefits they earned and are entitled to.
SS/Medicare reform is doomed to fail precisely because it's not a "welfare" program. People love taking things away from others, but not giving up things they themselves benefit from.
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If we Democrats were smart, we should move away from the entitlement BS and emphasize that every American worker pays for SS/Medicare to ensure it is there when they need it. Jeb! got taken to task by a lady in the primaries over this and he stumbled so much that he got booed by a bunch of his constituents. Frame it that way to make the Republicans look really cruel.
