This old saw about the poor and the elderly is not even logically consistent. What is special about the elderly that makes them en masse deserving of a government benefit? Stated another way why does the left insist that the elderly rich be given Social Security and Medicare benefits? After all, Warren Buffett may be old but he is also very rich! You would think therefore that it would be the left demanding means tests for these precious public resources.
The answer of course is because it works. And this says as much about the stupidity of the Sheeple as it does about the cunning of the left.
Here’s another thing to consider-— The “poor” in the United States are among the richest people in the world. Ask any Somali (the non-pirates, of course) who lives on $600 a year.