Quote:I am not sure what non-major changes can be made to Medicare other than cutting fraud, waste, and abuse and slimming down its bureaucracy. Social security I would prefer the retirement age was raised, but he said he wouldn't do it. The reason he says this too is because he knows making declarations that he will change them will cost him the election.

 

[At CPAC, Trump said}: "As Republicans, if you think you are going to change very substantially for the worse Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in any substantial way, and at the same time you think you are going to win elections, it just really is not going to happen," Mr. Trump said, adding that polls show that tea partyers are among those who don't want their entitlements changed. "What we have to do and the way we solve our problems it to build a great economy."

 

I am not a single-issue voter, and those two aren't very high on my list.

 

My position is, there are two things that are going to bankrupt this country: Medicare and foreign wars.  

 

Trump is correct that our intervention in Iraq was one of the worst mistakes this country has ever made.   Two trillion dollars and thousands of lives lost, and all we managed to do was destabilize the Middle East.    

 

But when he says he will not touch Medicare, I cannot agree with that position.   If we want to save the federal government from bankruptcy, we absolutely must control the growth of Medicare.  

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