Best Clint Eastwood tweet ~

[JDPriestly]

36. I'm a senior and the problem is often exaggerated, but Alzheimers and senility

are facts of life. For many, they are a part of aging.

The Republicans' proposals for Medicare, retirement savings accounts and Social Security ignore that reality.

I suppose if you are rich, lawyers and watchful heirs help you pass through the hazy years. But if you are poor, you just starve without government assistance.

What the Republicans ignore with their "you're on your own, grandma" philosophy is how frightened and confused an elderly person cqn feel once she no longer understands the world or the choices she has to make.

Thanks to Social Security and Medicare, indigent seniors are not so common now. Change those programs. Cut them back, and you are going to see some really horrifying things.

(Unless you are a brutal, cold-hearted Republican.)