Look, I’m as compassionate towards people who are reaching their older years as anybody could wish. Being a fledgling oldster myself, it’s a daunting prospect to be “thrown to the wolves” with no assistance as an elderly person.
I could be completely wrong, but the consequences of our financial situation are dire, and they are likely.
At a minimum you and your friends/family who expect to rely upon social security and medicare should at least consider what you might do if those (and other) programs effectively end. How will you feed yourself, how will you procure needed meds, where will you live, and what sort of life do you want versus what is realistic. You will need help, and if you don’t get it, life will be very hard.
Unfortunately, there is no simple political solution. Resolve to prioritize one expenditure over another will also not solve the problem. I agree that all unnecessary spending must cease - but to the jackals in the federal bureaucracy and congress - spending is an opportunity to skim off some for them and their kith and kin. This is the problem that is driving us over the cliff. Those that live off of government are far too often thieves. Since they are never going to be held accountable by fellow thieves in the DOJ, we are left with one option - default. And default we shall have.
Will there be anything left for you in your golden years? Nobody can say. You certainly should not have that expectation. That’s where friends, family, community come in, if you are lucky.
That’s the thing. Not everyone is going to be lucky. But sitting back and threatening to vote for one party versus the other is not going to ensure anything other than (at best) a cursory fix for an impossible problem.
The bureaucratic/WEF/elite solution is for you to die before you consume resources needed to have you live a decent, dignified life. That’s what they want - for you to die.
It’s depressing if you are unable or unwilling to do anything to live a dignified life in old age.
Vote as you wish. It will change nothing. Socialism always fails, and we are socialists now.
Ryan and Romney ran in 2012 promising to cut Social Security. They lost
Trump ran promising NOT to cut Social Security. He won.
It’s amazing how many folks on Freerepublic still think the GOP should side with Ryan and Romney. That may make “conservatives” feel virtuous, but if the GOP takes their advice, they’ll feel virtuous while living under neverending Democrat rule, because the GOP will never win the White House again