[Jaysun]

To many in this country, military spending has become an "intolerable" burden. This is not just true on the left. Many senior citizens, who were once patriotic, now just care about their SS and Medicare benefits to the exclusion of all else. To them, it doesn't matter if our Navy consists of two rubber dingies, just so long as they get their monthly check and free prescription drugs. Paying for benefits to all the illegals flooding into this country doesn't help either. Maybe we're not so far behind the EU after all.

I don't blame the senior citizens - they were duped by the government. They paid into SS for 50 years. The problem is the program itself. That's why I wish the President's SS plan were getting more traction (though his free drug plan is absurd). SS and Medicare might very well end up being the death of us.

[wolfcreek]

All those benefits won't do them much good if their all dead from terrorism.

[Coldwater Creek]

There is no excuse for any Senior to be duped about SS and Medicare. Nothing has changed, except that Medicare is paying better than it has in the past. Our SS checks come every month just like always.

I was self employed for years and years, and paid 15.3 percent.

[SevenDaysInMay]

The now retired class kept voting for those socialists who gave them lies, 500-1,000% inflation, higher taxes, expanded SS payments to those who didn't pay, problematic socialized medicine of Medicare, COLAs, and no real energy policy while this same class controls most of the wealth of this nation.

Overall, the selfishness of me first FDRers and foolishness have brought them into conflict with cold reality and the system's Boomer's fiscal drains on our treasury that cannot be sustained.

We shall be fighting this permanent war against Pan-Islam and ChiComs/Retro-Soviets regardless of whether retirees want to or not. We ought to be spending not less than 15% on Defense and force families to pay for their own elders or out of the elders' own pockets. Those refusing to save for their frail years are fools, poor fools.

Should we pay for drug benefits and bloated socialist vote-buying programs or defend our once sovereign, ratified Constitutional Republic and retaliate against Mo'ham's nuking city after city while ChiComs conquor Asia for oil and trade? Shall the several million killed, maimed, and displaced by islamo-nukes be paid millions like the WTC victims? Gran, forget your free meds and hospitalization...