Debt Crisis and Our Seniors and Disabled Under Attack

Now, I am getting fed up with the feds, the politicians who can't come to a rational agreement about our country's budget. Yes, I said it, oh, no, I am getting ready to say it (SPOILER ALERT: I AM A LIBERAL LEFTY, but I look to the middle and prefer the title Indepedent, though that would not be full disclosure, plus I appreciate radicals and socialists until I find they don't always care about me...where was I?) the Republicans are attacking people on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid---they want US to pay for this monetary mess. GIMME A BREAK!

Those roads you drive on, hospitals you stay in, colleges you send your kids to, were BUILT BY US! I live in a retirement home, average is 85, I live among heroes from wars, engineers who made coal mines safe, former teachers and nurses and doctors---how DARE Republicans threaten to take away their benefits?! When *I* started working, I planned to work until age 65, then finally enjoy my home and family, spend the rest of my years playing and relaxing. I entered a deal with my country, I pay now and my country pays me later. My money from my pay check would go to seniors, and the disabled who couldn't earn money. It made me feel GOOD to help those who needed my money, just part of the deal.

At the young age of 47 I never dreamed that a disease would knock me out of my job. I was always a saver, but I never planned for this. I never planned for a sick spouse, cancer before I was 40, etc etc etc. But, heck, I lived in the USA and I would be A-OK. Right.

Me? I am one of the lucky ones, I have long term care insurance, but it will run out before I do...I hope, or do I? Raised lower income, I fought my way to the middle class, then edge of upper middle class...before my crash. (Thanks, MS, I owe you one!) But what about those seniors who never even made it out of lower class? My great Aunt Vi is an example.

Aunt Vi worked in retail, on her feet all day, into her 80s, and all she got from Social Security was about $800/month. She never complained, it was good enough for her. (Good health can handle a multitude of sins.) She lived with my mom in low-income housing until she went into a nursing home, covered by Medicaid.

What about those who have no family to move in with? What about those who couldn't work past 65? They need every penny of their Social Security. And their health insurance? The Republicans in Wash DC, don't seem to care what happens to these people who worked so many years for THEM. After all, they are just old people, they will be gone soon.

Baby Boomers? Are you getting all this? AMERICANS, are you getting all this? The Republicans see no problem in continuing tax breaks for huge oil companies. They sit in their air-conditioned cars, sipping Evian and reading their iPADS, with all their donors on speed dial. No worries.

Where is AARP?? Where is compassion? When do you pick up the phone, call a Republican and say, "ENOUGH. You have enough."