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I know people, REAL people, old people who worked all their lives and tried saving a little money for retirement, who can't afford to both eat, and buy the prescriptions they need to maintain themselves healthy, so they make deadly choices daily.

What's your "conservative" solution to this problem?

The conservative solution to the problem of older folks or any folks who are incapable of providing for their own needs due to circumstance beyond their control is to provide for them.

In the case of the medicare prescription drug problem, the solution should have been to provide prescription drug cards to the 1.5 million seniors who could not afford the insurance on their own. Instead, we get a new entitlement that traverses these folks, middle class folks and upper class folks.

Times have changed in the past 40 years to where most of the wealth in this country is now in the hands of the elderly but we have managed now to subsidise much of that wealth by chopping into the paychecks of our progeny. Somethings wrong there.

I get so irritable thinking about this issue. Have you thought about the Torie plan about striking out a Old Europe's and Canada's monopsony drug buyer's lately? Beyond that, any ntion that Torie and his ilk when old will get any sort of government subsidies is quite nausiating.

The conservative solution to the problem of older folks or any folks who are incapable of providing for their own needs due to circumstance beyond their control is to provide for them.

By what defintion of conservative?
By what definition of Constitutional?
By what definition of confiscation?

The conservative solution to the problem of older folks or any folks who are incapable of providing for their own needs due to circumstance beyond their control is to provide for them.

What about the ones who are incapable of providing for their own needs due to bad life-style choices — choices that were not beyond their control? How do you differentiate?

As I understand your solution, you would rather make this program available to some and not to others, based on income and ability to pay.

So, the people who actually pay for these benefits would be refused access to the very benefits they fund?