The elderly aren't touched.
What is being discussed is cuts to Medicare to people UNDER 55.
And BTW...the first cut is not always the elderly. You forget..the elderly's lobbyists have brought us to this point where the elderly are taking the lionshare of the budget. They haven't been the first to get cut...they've been the first to grab Federal money.
I don’t know how old you are, but I do know how old I am. I first started putting $$$ into the Social Security and Medicare funds when I was only 15.
I put in plenty of money for over 50 years.
I paid my income taxes—as a single person for all but 4 years of all those tax returns. I was in the higher category—not married—no kids, etc. Earn $3 to bring home $2, was the mantra.
I haven’t used one single penny of Medicare.
I was promised my Social Security benefits and I live now on less than $1100 a month.
Reducing that money to people like myself is out and out fraud. I paid what was demanded into the fund. I didn’t steal the money out of the fund—the Democrats did.