Ron Johnson suggests ending Medicare and Social Security as Mandatory Spending Programs

[jojoju1998]

Isn't it interesting how whenever Republicans think they've won everything they start talking about messing with social security? Like back in 2005 when after they thought they had the "permanent Republican majority", they started trying to privatize it? It's almost as if this is what they've wanted to do all along.

The entire new deal project is at risk. The civil rights stuff, abortion was the second part of the overall new deal consensus that governed this country from the 1930s through the 1980s.

[jojoju1998]

Note to RoJo:  Stop touching the third rail.

Here's a question:  Do Europe's various Welfare States have BUDGETS for their Welfare State programs, or are they run, financially, on the entitlement basis that America's programs have?

It depends on the type of welfare, the type of healthcare system they have, social security.

Public education going through college; is funded out of the general tax revenues for most European Countries.  Some countries like the UK, Spain, have healthcare funded out of the general budget as well.

Other countries have multipayer health insurance; regulated private insurance which takes deductions out of your your paycheck, quite like Medicare.