Saving Medicare and Social Security

If the Democrats have a better way to save Medicare, what are they waiting for?
What is their plan to save Medicare?

Either show us how Medicare survives without any changes or show us what changes you propose we make. Anyone who supports doing nothing is a supporter of bankrupting Medicare.

Where is the House Democrat plan to save Medicare?
Where is the Senate Democrat plan to save Medicare?
Where is President Obama’s plan to save Medicare?

They have no plan to save it, and they do not plan to offer one. They have decided that winning their next election is more important than saving Medicare for retirees.

Washington has too many people who think their personal political careers are more important than our country’s future.

Maybe the Democrats’ strategy to use Medicare as a political weapon,
 (Medi-Scare) will work.

Maybe not offering their own plan to save Medicare will help them win seats in Congress and re-elect President Barack Obama.

Maybe it is great for the Democratic Party. But it is terrible for retirees, and it is terrible for America.

Medicare is going bankrupt. If something does not happen soon, in just a few years whoever is in charge in Washington will have to go to our seniors, disabled, and retirees and tell them we can no longer afford to continue providing them with the same Medicare they were used to.

In the past with respect to Medicare and Social Security, our leaders have agreed to put aside partisan politics for the sake of our country. Shouldn’t saving Medicare and Social Security be that kind of issue?

We are running out of time to save Medicare and Social Security for our parents, disabled and retirees and to secure it for our children. If Congress fails to act now, history will never forgive this egregious act of political self-importance over reality.

Carl Mathiesen