that in the coming months, the blaming back and forth about who has done more to sort of undermine or strip away medicare. jon: well, you argue in a newspaper column that democrats, and the obama administration have essentially launched a war on seniors. what do you mean by that? what is the justification? >> quite frankly, you know, the issue -- the issue of paul ryan's budget, it was a reform budget, it changed the way the calculus for how medicare is paid for, but it preserves it. the problem with obamacare not only does it raid $500 billion out of medicare over ten years, but it doesn't change, it doesn't fund today mentally make it more sound. it adds to it. twice now, once last year with the negotiations over raising the debt ceiling president obama made the strange threat that social security checks wouldn't go out if we didn't raise the