You young punks have been led to believe that social security and medicare are government handouts. Not so! Social security was/is paid for by payroll tax deductions over your working lifetime, and those 65 and over pay for their medicare each month. It's the politicians who spent the social security money, and all of our other money, that put our country in such financial ruin. Stop blaming social security and medicare for our financial troubles. Put the blame where it belongs -- on our inept politicians.