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Topic: What, If Any, Changes Should Be Made To The US Social Security System?

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Opinion #1
Debater: Jtaylor1

Social Security hurts the Treasury Department
If elders who wanted retirement benifits, medical insurance, and a well affordable retirement home, they should get a retirement job. As for the disabled, the widowed, and the orphans, will they get benifits from Social Security by robbing the Treasury Deparment? No. They should do the same as the elders. If the orphans, the widows, and the disabled wants to get a good benifit and well affordable homes, they should get jobs like the rest of us especially the elders. The treasury department is not a bank for the lazy homeless sloths who complain about everything. For example, if they want food, they should get a job. They are responsible grownups, not slackers and so called hobos. Do we want hobos stealing money from the Treasury Deparment? I take that as a "NO". In conclusion, Social Security hurts the Treasury Department.
Opinion #2
Debater: paraquat99

What about the physically and mentally disabled? Who do they turn to?
OK, fine, no Social Security for elderly folks who are still able-bodied or, even, didn't save for their "golden years". But what about Social Security for people born with lifelong disabilities that prevent them from ever working? What about parapalegics, the retarded, the limbless, broken veterans who served in wars like Iraq? How about children whose parents have died but who paid into the system while they were alive and working. Forget hobos, deadbeats, slackers and apathetics who don't want to work and save for their own retirements. What about those who never had a chance to do so because of mental and/or physical limitations? Who assists them financially when family, friends and charities cannot? Do we send them into the streets or pay taxpayer funds to throw them in asylums and institutions like the "good 'ol days"? You tell me...
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