[bill1952]

>And those taxpayers are going to have to pay more and more and more, every year,

Just like I have over the past 40+ years. Just like that.

> turn down the “how dare they cut MY benefits” sense of entitlement just a notch or two, mmkay??.

Mmkay, my butt - I paid just like we all did and now its time to collect as its needed.
That needs to be turned *up a notch, not down.

[Notary Sojac]

Anyone who has paid into Medicare for forty years, assuming their annual income was $80,000 for that entire period, has paid in maybe $50,000, tops.

One hospital stay for something like a cardiac bypass or valve implant will pretty much zero that out.

So from then on, that Medicare patient is riding in the cart that younger workers are pulling.

Interesting to know that you are apparently in favor of spending every single dollar on Medicare patients that they desire to consume.

Guess we'll just have to triple or quadruple the tax on your grandkids and greatgrandkids to cover that.

Hey, why not? The ungrateful little bastards would just piss it all away on those eye-pads and tee-voes, anyway.