Killing Social Security and Medicare?

I spent the bulk of my life either studying or teaching -- until I was 74. Now I gather the Republicans want to sabotage both of these basic support programs which keep us elders going. If this is not proposed murder of millions, I don't know what is. Already 145,000 Americans die each year because they could not afford medical insurance:
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/03/a_doctors_view_we_cant_afford.htmlhttp://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/03/a_doctors_view_we_cant_afford.html

This figure was reported in the Harvard medical journal. The website offers a comparable report.

Plutocracy means rule by the ultra rich. Speaking of "death panels,"
the Republicans' proposal to cancel Obama's medical reforms is pure and brutal insanity.

I know too many people who have survived such things as cancer for an extra decade, not to go ballistic at such hypocritical crap. As an American I am a defender of democracy. But when I hear the lie that the U.S. has the best health system in the world of democracies . . . ? It is, indeed, the most expensive and least efficient. The following web site shows how Americans are being deceived by such as Fox News:

Posted August 4th, 2009 at 4:19AM

FOX always states what failures social democratic states are compared to the GREAT AMERICAN system well here are some more facts:

http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Hate-Fox-News/646440

http://www.business.nsw.gov.au/aboutnsw/lifestyle/E1_quality_of_life.htm, AMERICA CAME 17TH

USA Ranking on Adult Literacy Scale: #9
(#1 Sweden and #2 Norway)- OECD

USA Ranking on Health care Quality Index: #37
(#1 France and #2 Italy)- World Health Organization 2003

USA Ranking of Student Reading Ability: #12
(#1 Finland and #2 South Korea)- OECD PISA 2003

USA Ranking of Student Problem Solving Ability: #26
(#1 South Korea and #2 Finland)- OECD PISA 2003

USA Ranking on Student Mathematics Ability: # 24
(#1 Hong Kong and #2 Finland)- OECD PISA 2003

USA Ranking of Student Science Ability: #19
(#1 Finland and #2 Japan)- OECD PISA 2003

USA Ranking on Women's Rights Scale: #17
(#1 Sweden and #2 Norway)- World Economic Forum Report

USA Ranking on Life Expectancy: #29
(#1 Japan and #2 Hong Kong)- UN Human Development Report 2005

USA Ranking on Journalistic Press Freedom Index: #32
(#1 Finland, Iceland, Norway and the Netherlands tied)- Reporters
Without Borders 2005

USA Ranking on Political Corruption Index: #17
(#1 Iceland and #2 Finland)- Transparency International 2005

USA Ranking on Quality of Life Survey: #13
(#1 Ireland and #2 Switzerland)- The Economist Magazine ...Wikipedia
"Celtic Tiger" if you still have your doubts.

USA Ranking on Environmental Sustainability Index: #45
(#1 Finland and #2 Norway)- Yale University ESI 2005

USA Ranking on Infant Mortality Rate: #32
(#1 Sweden and #2 Finland)- Save the Children Report 2006

USA Ranking on Human Development Index (GDP, education, etc.): #10
(#1 Norway and #2 Iceland)- UN Human Development Report 2005


NORWAY, SWEDEN AND FINLAND, socialist countries, hmmm.
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
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Ed Kent [blind copies]