Now do you understand why so many of us termed our vote as being for the lesser of two evils?

[Sekhmets Daughter]

98. So you are willing to sacrifice everyone, including the poor,

just to satisfy your own vision of the country. The unemployed don't count? You think that having nothing is better than having less? I find it interesting that you would call anyone "the least among us" just who are the unfortunates that fall into that category?

COLA will not be eliminated, but lowered...

You know nothing about me. In February Medicare will begin taking $104.00 a month from my Social Security payment. I turn 65 at the end of that month. I am incredibly healthy and would be more than happy to take a pass on Medicare, but if I elect to do that this year, when I do sign up I will be charged an extra premium of 10% for every year that I wait. Thus delaying until age 67 will mean my premium will automatically be 20% higher than the regular Medicare part B premium and that premium goes up every year. That $104. each month will definitely pinch my budget, but I have written letters to my congress critters and signed every petition that has come my way asking that congress not raise the Medicare age even though I would benefit from just such a raise.