CARD CARRYING GEEZER

Yes, I am one. For several years now I have positioned my snout at the Federal Trough to get my share of Social Security and Medicare. I watch with great interest as the debate rages on in Congress over the 14 trillion dollar debt and what we are going to do with it. The solutions have ranged from "Using fewer paperclips" to "Disbanding the Military and hoping for the best if we are attacked". The biggest sources of our financial implosion, Medicare and Social Security, are known as the 3rd Rail of Politics... you touch them and you die (politically). Anyone who gives it any thought whatsoever can plainly see that if SOMETHING is not done to reduce these two programs we are going to be up Yangtzee Creek without a paddle.

I have a simple proposal and that is why this will never be the solution that Congress chooses. Every year, move the retirement age out a few months until Both Social Security and Medicare don't kick in until age 70. And that's it. No one gets "cut off" or denied their sacred rights. they just have to wait a couple of extra years.... like people do in Canada and England or under Obamacare, when they need surgery. Life expectancy has been extended decades since the implementation of these two programs and yet the age of entitlement has remained the same, 65. Some elements of this have already been attempted but not in earnest. We need to get on the stick today because tomorrow is too late. We may have to wait until congress comes back from RECESS. They are home in their respective districts telling their constituents how much they are doing to make AMERICA a better place to live. Nero is practicing his violin.