Originally Posted by
Devils Horse
Lived in Bowling Green, Ky for over 23 years working at Fruit of the Loom. Love Ky, and still have many good friends there. Got laid off when Fruit outsourced IT functions to an Indian company back in 2019. Been in Huntsville, Al since, working under a contract doing network support for NASA. Old and tired of working, so tried to retire a few months ago. They created a 'special' situation for me, and I agreed to work remote 3 days a week from my dining room.
Genuinely sorry to hear about your health. Can tell you're a scrappy dude, hang in there and keep fighting. Not generally a praying kind of guy (unless I have a big un on my string that's barely hooked) but I'll make an exception here. The Medicare system is confusing to me, with convoluted and punitive rules. Typical government program, with a web site designed to spoon feed information to 1st graders instead of seniors.
Social Security is a little better, at least you can tell what you're eligible for and when.
I don't believe either party will significantly change either program, both have grown more complex and costly to taxpayers, but have not fundamentally changed. Every Presidential election cycle the Dims will say how their opponents want to cut benefits, and kill old people tho.
Personally I don't trust or like politicians of any stripe, most at the national level are lawyers who've never had a real job. They get rich while in office, and work across the aisle to get rid of any honest colleagues who get elected.
The Dims are not for the little people, they're for themselves. They're for taxation, and confiscating of wealth to pay for government redistribution programs which keep them in power. (Vote buying with other peoples' money.) Their whole tax the rich, feed the poor spiel is utter crap. The wealthy and middle class are already paying for EVERYTHING, look it up. They want a big percentage of people to stay poor and resentful, they're a built-in voter base.
Republicans are not much better, but at least they publicly advocate for smaller government and lower taxes, though few of them deliver. They also are less prone to pandering to special interest groups. You do research and peel the onion, you find most of those groups are more about money than actually helping anyone.
Both parties have a huge amount of corruption, and DC is indeed a swamp. IMO term limits are the only substantive fix, but with the foxes in charge of the hen house, that ain't likely to happen.