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<p>This statement is so out-of-touch that it deserves to be repeated, in bold, as evidence - nay, proof - of the fact that its author is disconnected from the reality of life outside the richest 1% of America. You know, the people who work all their lives just enough to get by, who don’t have million-dollar trust funds with Goldman Sachs.</p>
<p>The reality of Social Security and Medicare is that many people would be on the streets without them, being too old to work and too poor to live. That’s what used to happen in America. Half of all seniors were impoverished in the 1930s. That didn’t mean they couldn’t afford cable TV - it meant they couldn’t afford food and shelter.</p>