As soon as McCain is president, he intends to eliminate social security.?

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You might think you have a Social Security account but you don't... that money goes into the national treasury and it has been used up for Social Welfare programs... in short... your money has already been "given away". He plans to turn your money into true accounts and then make investments that have actual returns so your money can grow. It would be like a 401k... like a retirement account and it would grow. As it stands right now... with nothing done to it... Social Security will cave-in and it won't be there for your kids. So don't believe the misinformation out there...

I have heard McCain is going to trash Medicaid/Medicare too and tax healthcare benefits (from Obama TV ad)... this is all FALSE. He plans to open more choices on healthcare and give people tax benefits for participation including improving employer coverages. His plan results in a tax benefit of about $1200 per family.

The cost of healthcare will show up on paystubs as income (it actually is income) but that will be offset by a credit of $5000 per family and $2500 per individual). This will be done to protect familes from tax increases and give them control of their own money to invest in their own healthcare needs.

When he is talking of taking money from Medicaid/Medicare he is specifically talking about going after the "graft and corruption and fraud" that accounts for up to 40% of its total cost and turn that "lost money" into care for Americans. That can be done by revamping that system and gettng tight controls over it... there are too many people bilking it and robbing it right now to make it cover as many people as it really could.

These things are all just plans of course... the candidates will modify those plans when/if they become president. In fact they make some improvements to them even now. Obama is already making some adjustments to his "Spread the Wealth" plan as the high tax line is now consistently moving downward from incomes of $250k... to $200k.... now at $150k (re: Biden 10/27).... He has made those adjustments because he is trying to be honest with the American people and he knows that big Gov't is costly and that the revenue he requires to support it will cost much more than he first estimated.