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.
Your mother was not forced into the plan. She had a choice. Obviously someone advised her it would be to her benefit so she signed up. As I said it was her option, she had a choice.
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/medicare_basics.asp