So you begrudge the relief the senior citizens have been given through the prescription plan because of your 16 and 18 year old but you don't say one word about the WW11 bonds that each and everyone of us are still paying for today. #1 I wasn't born then and #2 up until recently I wasn't a US citizen but I still have to pay.
If you'd care to do a little research you'd find out that every generation pays for something from generations before. That's the way it's always been and will probably always be that way.
This AMAZES me that people who were born and raised in this country do NOT acknowledge that and you, as a naturalized citizen, DO!
Where the hell do they think the interstates came from?
And I suggest that the entitlement mentality is running roughshod over the sense of personal responsibility....to the detriment of the entire country.
My 72 year old mother is perfectly capable of paying for her medicines, yet she was forced into the program. My children will pay for this stupidity for the rest of their lives.
The comparison to war bonds is inapposite....that effort benefited the entire country...then, and now. The medicare prescription drug benefit is a direct transfer from younger generations to older generations....a claim on the fruits of their labor with no concommitant obligation to return any portion of it to them. NONE. That's redistributive socialism dressed up as compassionate conservatism.