McClatchy has the story Sen. Mitch McConnell says Medicare, Social Security must change to fix U.S. debt.

The nation’s debt is its biggest problem, and the only way to fix it is to make changes in entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell said Friday.

McConnell, speaking to several hundred people during Commerce Lexington’s Public Policy Luncheon at the Hyatt Regency, said those changes should include raising eligibility ages over time.

“Only one thing can save this country, and that’s to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue,” said McConnell, the Senate minority leader.

If there were any doubts in any peoples’ minds before, at least it should be clear to everyone now, that the Republican agenda is to cut Social Security and Medicare.  All other things serve the cutting of Social Security and Medicare.

If rich people can retire and live off their investments – rich peoples’ Social Security and medicare – why do they think it is impossible for our economy to support the eventual retirement of us all as we age to retirement age?

If in fact the economy as a whole can afford to have retirees, then the only question is how is the economy going to pay for it?  It should be entirely possible for the government to be the one to set aside (or manage) the resources to make this  happen.

If the economy cannot afford to have a bunch of retired people, then we need to face that fact and honestly say that a bunch of retirees are going to have to eat dog food, live in tents, and die when they get sick.

At least we would be facing the real issues.  The not so rich people can decide what they want to do about the situation when it is presented to them honestly.  I wonder if they will just agree to sit back and take it so that the rich people can live in comfort.