If Your Parents Can’t Pay Their Bills, You May Have To

[JDPriestly]

18. I have been warning younger people on DU about this for a long time.

Without Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and welfare for the very elderly, you young people could end up paying for your parents' nursing home care. Of course, you would have the alternative of living with your parents and supporting them in your home.

And just how would you take care of a parent with Alzheimers?

Don't fall for the Republican, Pete Peterson argument that we can't afford Social Security and Medicare.

Yes, it would be tough on the rich to raise their taxes, but the alternative to doing that is imposing costs that seniors expected to be paid through those taxes on adult children.

And, as we have seen over the past 30 years, the lower the taxes on the rich, the more they outsource and export jobs, the lower the wages they are willing to pay, the fewer jobs there are.

The Republicans are profoundly anti-social. They care neither about seniors nor about children, nor about young adults, nor about the middle-aged. They only care about themselves. And even when it comes to themselves, they do not have the understanding of what it is to be human to know what is really good for themselves.

Save Social Security. Save Medicare.

And I do not trust Obama on this, not a bit. He appointed Geithner as his Secretary of Treasury, which means he put Geithner in charge of the Social Security Trust Fund. And Geithner was appointed to the Fed by a committee headed by Pete Peterson the arch-enemy of Social Security.