Medicare pays for itself? No, dude, it doesn't. Medicare accounts for 15% of the federal budget. This is the second time that you have been completely wrong in regard to factual information. I have never seen anybody who so clearly is just spewing what he has been told, none of your thoughts originated in your head. That's why you are against Medicare even though you are on it. Do you know why your doctor doesn't accept medicare? Why don't you look into that and then come back and tell me how great the system used to be. Hell, it ain't that great now, I'm not sure if it's worse now or before, but at least we're trying to help people in need now. The cost of war with Iraq is over? Are you kidding? Again, get your information right. America should and sometimes does take care of its veterans. So it's not over.
You completely misunderstood what I was saying about the elderly and disabled. I don't really care to revisit it, now that I understand you are actively opposed to a government program that you need.
What you don't get is that I know where our money goes and as I said in the first place, our entitlement programs desperately need reform. Just because I don't have your opinion doesn't mean I've never seen the US Federal budget, or the current deficit. Have you noticed that between us, it's you who is completely wrong about their information? What this nation was founded on was every man having equal opportunity to succeed in this world. When people can't succeed because they get really sick 1 time and don't have health insurance, that's unacceptable to me. It's unacceptable that people can't afford to go to college because their insurance premiums were so high. Maybe the Republicans could have worked with the Democrats to find solutions to those problems and others. But they didn't. So we're left with a problematic law that creates as many problems as it has currently solved. You blame the Democrats because their law was flawed. I blame the Republicans because they worked for corporations instead of the American people, they want nothing more than to leave you and your family in a ditch because you don't make enough money for them, you're too old for them, and you've served your purpose for them. But they left their words in your brain and you keep using them, unaware of the fact that the people conservatives are always ranting about - those who need help from the government, don't contribute anything - that's you.