Why can't we privatize Social Security and Medicare, do away with banking regulations?

[Ignatius Reilley]

and then let the banks and the hedge funds manipulate another market crash, wiping these old farts off claims to our future once and for all?

[Elwood Blues]

Bush tried & failed.

BTW, my dad is one of those "old farts." He and his brothers lived thru the depression, fought & saved the nation in WWII, and then built the economic boom that made your sweet life possible. He is twenty times more man than you'll ever be.

[Jerk]

The old farts are your grandparents.

[Will]

What ever happened to the term compassionate conservative? Did it ever occur to you that many of these so called old farts don't rely souly on SS or Medicare? Some of us planned for the future. I can only hope but doubt you are. Oh! My bad, Occur would elude to thinking on your part which apparently doesn't happen much.