Thats fine, I didnt mention any particular program...to think that there isnt waste in every govt program though that could be cut and not effect the benefits from that program is plain ignorant.
If you think the govt is a smooth running machine that is extremely efficient please raise your hand b/c Id like to know who to slap first.
you act like cutting benefits to medicare is the end of the world for you. Look at it from the "youngsters" point of view. It likely wont even be there by the time we get old enough to use it. So at least your getting something back for all the money you put in, WERE THE REAL ONES GETTING FUCKED!!!
I absolutely did not act like cutting Medicare benefits would be the end of the world for me. That would be absurd on at least two levels; At 68 years of age, under that proposal, my benefits would not be cut and secondly, I purchase private medical insurance because Medicare doesn't provide me the coverage I want or my wife needs.
Incidentally, I also collect SSI being as how I am retired. Likewise if SSI failed, I have ample other income to survive just fine. Your weak attempt to make this about me, just doesn't wash.
Don't fall for the scare tactics some people employ. Rumors that SSI and Medicare are going under have persisted for years. Not that it couldn't happen of course, but law makers also benefit from these programs and so are very unlikely to let that happen. Before these benefits go bankrupt, there will be changes enacted to stop that happening. However if they do go bust, as you suggest, you will be the real ones getting fucked. I'll likely die of old age before then.
Incidentally, there are no "smooth running machines" either in government or in the private sector at least not on any permanent basis. So, what's your point?