and they are old enough to know better!
That is the part that gets to me. How
old people grew up during the depression,
WW1 and WW2. and now think the way they
do. I hear the word ‘Free’ used so freely
to distort, disguise, and deceive as to the
real meaning of FREE. If it is free, someone
somewhere, is paying.
Free IMHO should be used to describe our status
under the Constitution, in this great land. Anything
else is distortion of the concept.
I'll tell you how - they've had the government STEAL a portion of their paycheck every week for the past 40+ years with the promise that they'd get it back. Now, they want it back because the government owes them. Above all the welfare queens, food-stamp drones, "earned income credit" bums, psuedo-disabled scammers, and the rest of the liberal freeloaders that never paid a penny into the system, they should get first dibs. When the government cuts off the welfare gravy train, then they can start talking about how to deal with SS.
my husbands' family to be specific....his father, the oldest, basically was in the army just as WW2 ended....his younger brothers were never in, never in viet nam.....
you have a whole lot of older people on benefits now who never served in the military let alone a war....