Bravo to this blog for saying what has to be said over and over again," On the basis of past voting behavior of elderly people, there seems little prospect that altruism toward their children and grandchildren will curtail narrowly self-interested (one might even say selfish) voting by elderly people to preserve their entitlements." The media and the blogosphere have to do what politicians refuse to do, publicly shame greedy older Americans who resist means testing for Medicare and Social Security.