I have felt that the only way this could and should be resolved is at the ballot box. The problem as I see it in talking to my fellow seniors is they are not going to settle for cuts in benefits, at least until there are significant cuts in other spending. Of course they usually point to welfare, foreign aid and programs that are small in proportion to the problem.
It doesn't help when they hear about 60 bill a year being lost from medicare in fraud, waste and abuse. Many, like myself understand that there is huge waste in defense and they are livid that the so called social security trust fund is gone.
In spite of the fact we are dealing with numbers which should be easy to agree on, and present some alternatives, such as raise ss tax x dollars, cut benefits x dollars, wait for benefits, God knows how they address medicare, maybe logan's run, etc.
However there is no one, absolutely, no one, in Washington with the credibility to explain the hard choices. The fact is almost all of them have to accept the blame for this mess and 0nce voters understand that they will vote them out.
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