[rabscuttle385]

focusing on the poor folks on SS and Medicare

Not everyone on SS and Medicare is "poor."

See picture below (the idiot on the left, and I'm not talking about Obama) for example.

Spending will be cut, and everyone--I mean, everyone--who has elected to depend on Big Government will feel pain, no exceptions.

[Cheerio]

who has elected to depend on Big Government will feel pain, no exceptions

How can you make the comment that Social Security was an "election" that any of us took??? It was a RAT program and has always been a RAT program just about as sacrosanct as abortion (since 1973) to their leadership and base. I did not CHOSE to enroll in SS. My calculations, using actual performance from my own investments since 1961, would have allowed me to become a millionaire with SS "voluntary" contributions. Instead I receive $1,500 a month and it all goes away the minute I die and cannot be left to my children.