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  Trump, Shapiro and the War on Social Security The death of "Entitlements" DONALD JEFFRIES Ben Shapiro, the smarmy young elitist who co-founded conservative platform The Daily Wire, took a break from fondling the Wailing Wall the other day. Next to enthusiastically shilling for Israel, his key issue seems to be eliminating Social Security. You know, the primary income most retired people rely on. Shapiro came out with both guns blazing, firing away at….American senior citizens. He called retirement itself a “stupid idea” and said it was “insane” that the retirement age hasn’t been raised. This has long been a Stupid Party staple- just keep raising the retirement age. That way there will be less of the old, useless eaters to pay. Shapiro inaccurately referred to the fact that Americans are living longer, when actually the life expectancy rate in this country has been falling for the past several years. That’s because of our crack Medical Industrial Complex, and our preservati

  HEALTHCAREsteria: Best Healthcare Memes (The Devil Wears a White Coat!) You are 6x more likely to be killed by a Doctor than a gun, health care in different countries summed up and more healthcare memes + why they never want to find a cancer cure! The Who 's Roger Daltrey is coming to the end of his 24-year stewardship of the Teenage Cancer Trust's annual charity shows, and has let the cat out of the healthcare bag by saying the quiet part out loud: "I don't think they'll ever find a cure for cancer. I don't think they want to find a cure": Roger Daltrey questions Big Pharma as he nears the end of his time at the Teenage Cancer Trust   Speaking with  The Times  [paywalled link] about his time in charge of the Trust, Daltrey – whose sister died from breast cancer aged just 32 – expresses reservations about the scientific establishment's approach to finding a cure for the disease. “I don’t think they’ll ever find a cure for cancer,”  says Daltrey. “I d