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At the latest transparent closed door meetings in Washington DC, we 
progressives have been discussing how to solve the looming problems with 
the unfunded Socialist Security system, Medicare, etc.

We've come to our conclusions, and will now pass them down to you, the 
stupid peasants, in speeches from on high, in the coming weeks and months.

This is but a preview.

Yes, it's true that Social Security was originally set up so that every 16 
workers would be taxed to support each retiree or disabled person, but 
those demographics have shifted in recent decades, until now the ratio is 
more like 3 to 1. And a lot of baby boomers havent even retired yet, at 
which time the ratio is expected to fall to more like 2 to 1.

That's obviously "unsustainable", as we granola crunching radical 
environmentalists like to say about man-grown foods.

But fear now...er fear not.

We progressives have the solutions to all problems. We're amazing.

At these latest meetings, the eugenicists among us pointed out that the 
lives of older people are obviously of lesser value than the lives of 
younger people.

The words of our 20th Century progressive icon, George Bernard Shaw, were 
cited:

�I don�t want to punish anybody but there are an extraordinary amount of 
people whom I want to kill. I think it would be a good thing to make 
everybody come before a properly appointed board and, say every five or 
every seven years, just put them there and say; �Sir or Madam, will you be 
kind enough to justify your existence?" If you�re not producing as much as 
you consume or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use this big 
organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because 
your life does not benefit us and it can�t be of very much use to 
yourself.� � George Bernard Shaw, 20th Century Progressive icon

So they said; "Have you ever seen that old sci-fi movie "Logan's Run"? 
We can do something like that, only with people who reach the age of 66. 
Far out!". 

So here's the plan: When people reach the age of 66, or become too disabled 
to work, they will go before a committee. If they cannot prove that their 
life benefits society, then why should society support them. The committee 
will give its ruling, they will be taken to a nice hospital room, given a 
nice meal and it will contain a drug that will put them to 
sleep...permanently. The body will be cremated, and we will have no more 
problems with Social Security or Medicare.

There's really no point, you see, in the bankrupt United States, having to 
borrow and spend more money, when these peoples lives do not produce 
anything of value to the collective, that would make it worthwhile to 
support them.

�I prefer the word progressive, which has a real American meaning, going 
back to the progressive era at the beginning of the 20th Century. I 
consider myself a modern progressive.� - HILLARY CLINTON, JULY 23, 2007