There was an excellent column in Sunday's MJS by a guy named Michael Lipsky, a 65-year-old Virginian.

Excerpts:

I'm concerned about Social Security not because I'm worried about my benefits. I'm worried that a safety net for older people in need won't be there when my children, now in their 30s, and my grandchildren, can no longer work.

When the president focuses on how seniors don't have to worry about their own benefits, it feels insulting. When did we become the generation only worried about our own needs?

We and those coming of age right behind us were the ones who, in many different ways, fought for civil rights. Later, we worked to secure women's rights and an end to male privilege. We certainly didn't do those things only for ourselves.

To be sure, these struggles were joined by people of every age, and they continue. But surely they were not fought by people who would grow old only to worry that their benefits remain intact.

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We lived through difficult times. Like many before us, we have a deep appreciation of the promise of this country.

Don't infantilize us with promises that our narrow interests are secure! Talk to us instead about how the country will be a blessing among nations and, at home, how broadly its advantages will be shared.

Not sure what his position on reform is, but I've wondered about these sentiments, myself.