... , I am cautiously optimistic that {the Republicans} will help older people like me without taking every spare penny we have.
My brother-in-law, a life-long staunch Republican, has been retired for ten or more years now. About six years ago in light of everything the Republicans were and still are trying to the retired, he suddenly said, "I've learned that the Republicans are definitely not my friends." And yet he continued to vote for them.
I'm one year away from retirement myself. I have health insurance through my military retirement, but who's to say that they won't go after that too? The foxes are in charge of the hen house now.
And i also wonder whether Ryan, Trump and company will push for cutting government services in the interest of paying the debt bill?
Whatever makes you think that they want to pay off the debt? They just want to gut this country.