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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (188322)	5/5/2012 3:52:21 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 541591

The greedy old folks vote. And while the wingnuts like to bitch about the poor, there's a lot more greedy old folks, and those greedy old folks show up to the polls- to protect their checks- even if some of them do bitch about "government". And they'll vote themselves goodies over the good of the country any old day. Who has the balls to take on the greedy old folks? No one who matters. I'm not saying I want the oldsters eating cat food and dumpster diving. I don't want that for the young and poor, and i don't want it for the old and poor. But they don't deserve much more than subsistence, and they ought to be working a lot longer. If you can pay your own way you can retire early- otherwise you work until at least 70. No one "deserves" golden years. That's stupid. Earn them, pay for them yourself, or work longer. I don't believe in entitlements for anyone- not the poor, and not the old. But I do believe in a limited safety net. I don't want people begging in the street, and I want universal care, for selfish reasons, because I don't want diseases spread, and I want people treated early, so they don't get expensive. But I want everything that is done for the profligate or the poor to be sensible, minimal, and all aimed at encouraging folks to work. I work. I expect to work as long as I am able. If I drop dead as a working person, that would suit me, as I have very little respect for layabouts- even old ones. I pay for my own disability in case I can no longer work. I do not expect the government to have the money to support me in my old age, and I don't want it supporting other people. Give them enough cash not to starve, and give them a roof over their heads, even if it's an unpleasant one- but further than that I will not go. Our senior citizens suck- but I excuse the productive ones from that judgment. Some of them are still out there being productive. And I salute them for being productive, and for bucking the seductive allure of loafing and being bloodsucking vampires on the rest of us. Unlike some of the poor, who are too uneducated to work, or who have had no role models, many of the oldsters ought to know better. Which makes them even less worthy of respect. But republicans aren't going to do shit about this any more than democrats- so I vote for other reasons. I don't see this changing. We'll just see a big wealth transfer from the young to the old, until the young get so pissed off they do something about it.