Here I go for the tenth time ! Please listen.

Again Republican­s want to loot SS and Medicare to finance their corporate entitlemen­ts. When will people in this country catch on to it? When  will they understand that the GOP is only in to redistribu­te money to the top?

People who receive Medicare and SS paid infor 40-50 years every month. The programs started preparing for the Baby Boomers' retirement decades ago. This didn't just come about now.

The reason why these programs choke is because of out of control medical costs, which are 100% higher than in any other civilized country, because we allow a predatory industry to manage our citizen's health.

It is also because of misappropr­iation, which is another word for "theft". The Feds take money under Fed. budgeting rules out of the SS pot, and invest it in other projects, like into the war in Afghanista­­n. If a life insurance company would do the same thing, it would go broke too. SO it is not the system that is bad it is how the system is being played.

If left alone, Social Security will have a $4.6 trillion surplus by 2023. It can pay out all scheduled benefits for the next quarter-ce­­ntury with no changes.

So, senior citizens, if you don't like low SS paychecks, and receiving coupons for a new heart valve, think twice if you check ( R) on the ballots in 2012. You might just sign your SS and Medicare away, so Republican­s can once more lower taxes on the upper 1%, who are already paying 10% less in Long Term Capital Gains taxes than a an average family man on his paycheck.