I think that's a pretty pathetic way to treat our elders. From a young age we should be taught not only to respect others but to respect our elders; they have lived longer and have more experience and it's quite valuable to learn from them. It's one thing to have a safety net, it's quite another to find out what you were counting on was going to be eaten away by the utterly insane cost of medical bills and medicines, both expected and unexpected. You can always hold things aside but you can't always know how much you need or what surprises are in store. I think one of the saddest things in our society is how we treat those who have lived life and are at an advanced age. Tossed aside as if they are a problem no one wants to deal with. If we all chipped in it wouldn't take much to help support those who need it. But no, some people would whine about that 'maybe' taking out their second bottle of wine for the week and how women should be forced to give birth but screw the elderly who can be just as helpless as a child.

They don't always have someone they can live with, they don't always have the ability to live a life on their own and good God the cost of living in an elderly care facility that is actually GOOD is more than most can afford, tacking on medical bills very few who are middle class will ever be able to afford it.

Explain the logic here to us con.

A person has several kids. They bleed the system dry all of their life. They never provide a service. They never put money into the system. They took from the rest of us and never worked all of their life. Why does the system owe them cancer treatment if they get cancer at age 82?

Would I do something if I had màgic powers to save them? Sure. But why should the system that they were a parasite of?

Now you as a veteran is a different issue all together, but you didn't come at this debate from that angle.

Before we had the radical Left buying votes with tax payer money, families used to take care of family.

What a novel idea!

Idiot Liberals like Hillary Clinton came along and made statements like...."it's takes a village to raise a child".

NO, IT TAKES A MOTHER AND FATHER WHO WON'T ABANDOM THEM!

Progressives came along, and decided that resdistributing one man's wages to another, would buy votes. They used the rationale that it was compassionate to care for the irresponsible.

People might actually have some respect for a person that was truly compassionate, but Progressives support no restriction abortions of viable babies for any reason up to birth, so therefore they have no true compassion for even our most innocent!

IT'S ALL POLITICS! It's called ushering in Socialism by getting the people dependent on Big Government.

Obama did a bang up job of adding millions of people to food stamps even though he claimed our economy was doing just fine.

Well, you have to keep in mind Brontoraptor is a wealthy internet entrepreneur legless Cherokee living on a reservation town in Oklahoma. Whether or not that's part of THE 1 percent it's definitely part of a 1 percent of SOMETHING, which can explain his divergent views sometimes. He just isn't from the same world as the rest of us commoners.

The other thing is he probably really really likes the idea of any of us having to beg.

If you take all the families who COULD SUPPORT THEIR PARENTS, but choose to allow the tax payers to do it, we would have very few people begging for charity!

This is how it works, when our nation was not going bankrupt, and famiies understood they would have to help their parents out when they got older, people planned for these inevitable situations.

Along came closet Socialist Democrats who needed to get Americans hooked on Government dependence rather than family dependence.

Now families look for ways to have government support their parents in old age homes, by transfering their parents savings into their own accounts (a few years before needing an old age home) and thereby putting all the burden on tax payers to support the parents.

You know this is true but as good little closet socialists, you like having others support those YOU SHOULD BE SUPPORTING. This way you can keep your parents savings for yourself.

I will make a deal with you. I will support every old person who has no children to rely on, if you agree not to use tax payer money for all those old people who do have families to support them.

I'm not talking about catastophic illness that might cost much more than a family can afford. I'm talking about families taking their parents in their homes rather than expecting tax payer funded old age homes.

Government AS ALWAYS does a terrible job of keeping a budget and keeping costs down. Our nation is going bankrupt case you missed it. We can no longer afford giving everyone the free life.

Many many people are basically selfish and will allow others to bare the burden of the old people rather than they themselves helping their parents.

The problem with Progressives is that they want Government to be the ones supporting everybody. IT CAN NOT WORK! WE ARE GOING BANKRUPT! ALL THOSE OTHER SOCIALIST NATIONS ARE GOING BANKRUPT AS WELL!

You call Conservatives uncaring people when the facts are that Conservtives are the truly compassionate people who would glady support their parents. The sick problem with the Left is that they have taken so much of our income to pay for all their bankrupt social programs, that families have a hard time saving money to support their parents.

It's a viscious cycle.