How we care about our children and grandchildren

Current GOP mantra: do not pass national debt to our children and grandchildren . We care so much we slash their ability  now to get a good education, a Pell grant, attract good teachers? Something is wrong with this picture. No matter which side we take in the budget/deficit debate, the next generations are getting the screw. If we older generation really cared, we would stop fighting "Obamacare's"  ending of subsidies to private insurers to administer Medicare and agree to raising the retirement age to 70.  There is nothing more precious to our children's future, or for that matter, to their country's ability to be able to compete with the rest of the world, than a great education. The other choice is to admit that we older folks are more concerned about putting our ideology into practice, subsiding agriculture and oil interests, do not want to pay taxes for the benefits we demand,...and support government defense contracts for weapons systems even the Pentagon does not want, etc. No: those are sacred cows. Touch them and some politician will get stomped in the ground. Instead, since the young cannot vote, we balance the budgets on their backs while hypocritically rationalize our preferences for whatever we do in the name of the interests of the younger generation.