At this point eff it, everyone has to take some of the burden of these cuts, young, old, rich, poor. Go look at every other thread on here about cuts that affect the poor or young, it's downright gleeful, but when it comes to boomers, " oh no, they are on a fixed income," why are we rewarding boomer irresponsibility on the backs of the rest of America's future. Everyone ran up the credit card everyone needs to shoulder the burden.
And I'm not even saying get rid of Medicare or SS for those in retirement or near retirement but reduction in benefits has to be on the table and a phasing out for the younger generation.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.-Thomas Paine