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How bout everyone try acting like adults a d fending for themselves.....at least try....even ONCE in your lives....... You people have become so averse to hard work and psychologically dependent on others' sweat equity your parents would be embarrassed by you.

Sooner or later the Republicans will wise up and start appealing to young voters.They will do this by pointing out that they are paying for their parents unsustainable government benefits. Furthermore, that there won't be any left for them when they retire.

This article leave out the nest option. Give money to neither group. Let the people keep the money they have earned.

I think it's humorous how young voters support the Democrat Party when it's the very policies supported by the Left that almost ensure the economic demise of the younger generations! But hey -- pot will be legal and birth control will be supplied for free by the government, so who cares.......lol

"I think it's humorous how young voters support the Democrat Party when it's the very policies supported by the Left that almost ensure the economic demise of the younger generations!" HaHa, I think it's hilarious how quickly people forget that we were running surplusses under Clinton and on track to pay of the entire debt in less than a decade until Bush thought it would be better to pay those surplusses back to Americans in the form of massive tax breaks, especially for the wealthiest (capital gains, estate); THEN, he decided not to pay for two decade-long wars or Medicare, Part D (Cheney: "deficits don't matter"). Maybe young people are smarter than you give them credit for, ddellwo.

But what this article completely glosses over is that the disconnect goes even farther. While the Republican voting block includes many more retirees, they are still the only party talking about ways to control the costs of these programs. The Democrats get the young vote and they won't even consider putting medicare and SS cost containment on the table as they tirelessly pile on even more programs. All these college students voting for Obama need Econ 101 in a big way. Since they are the ones that will make up the bulk of the future tax base, you'd think that they'd want a high growth, lower spending agenda - instead they are voting for exactly the opposite; and it'll be their bill to foot. You don't need some academic economic computer model to see how this works - we have countless real world examples going on all around us: Detroit, California, Illinois, Greece, Italy, Japan, . . . They have already traveled the same path that Obama wants us to follow as a nation, and it's only got one destination.

probsolver: "How bout everyone try acting like adults a d fending for themselves.....at least try....even ONCE in your lives....... You people have become so averse to hard work and psychologically dependent on others' sweat equity your parents would be embarrassed by you." I have worked ["fended" for myself and my family of five] my whole life, plan on working until I'm seventy and have paid into Social Security and Medicare every year. You have the temerity to suggest that I and everyone I know are lazy and don't deserve Social Security and Medicare. We baby boomers spent hundreds of thousands raising each and every Gen X and Gen Y whiner, and many of them are still dependent on us. We have been the providers and as we age, we have paid in to make sure we don't go hungry or homeless or without medical care. It's time for our children and grandchildren to step up and do for us what we did for our parents and grandparents. It's called responsibility to care for others; the opposite of selfishness.

Notice how military spending is not mentioned? The largest discretionary spending does not exist? A Billion dollar secret budget? The F-35 failure? The V-22 osprey? Over 800 Foreign installations? A military budget the size of the rest of the world combined? Never mentioned. Does not exist.

The easiest solution to shore up Medicare and lower health care costs is to go to a single-payer system for all. Something the GOP will never consider due to their desire to privatize Medicare. The Ryan budget that they passed does just that. Social Security could be made solvent for the next 60 years, which would be long enough to carry it through the retirement of the boomers, simply by getting rid of the earnings cap which is currently $110K. This is also something the GOP won't consider. The GOP see the SS trust as a pile of money that should be given to their pals on Wall street to manage.

I think this article has a disconnect in the fact there are 3 generations. The baby boomers (rightfully so) concerned with their benefits, Genertion Y that is used to get it for little effort and generation X which is getting squeezed between the two groups and the two political groups supported by each.