Bwhahahaha! Stupid Republicans, trying to buy off the feckless elderly who insist every damn thing that gets invented is suddenly a birthright to be provided by taxing subsequent generations. They're mad it's not completely free.
The 'Greatest Generation' is the biggest 'Gimme Generation' America's ever had...
"If the Democrats were to propose that all Americans leap off a thousand-foot cliff, moderate Republicans would come up with a compromise proposal that three-quarters of us leap off a 500-foot cliff." -Thomas Sowell
LOL, that's a great from Sowell.
You got it. An old gal who lives in a three-story mansion in tony Essex Fells, New Jersey, expects her maid, who takes the bus to work because she can't afford a car, to pay more in taxes so that SHE can get free drugs. What's next: a taxpayer-subsidized cruise on the new Queen Mary oceanliner?
This is the "entitlement" mentality at work: once a person gets the idea that she is for some reason "entitled" to something, she doesn't appreciate what she receives; quite the contrary, she resents that (in her eyes) she receives so little. Another problem is that this hypothetical senior's children want her to receive every government benefit allowed, and then some, because they don't want her to spend her own money -- it cuts into the inheritance. Her children don't want to help her, as well, so it's better to force everybody's children to help her, including people whose parents are dead.
The 'Greatest Generation' is the biggest 'Gimme Generation' America's ever had...
They are called greedy geezers for a reason. Quite frankly, I think that our society does too much for the elderly. Most of them are doing perfectly fine, thank you.