I think you know that the $50Bill Soc Sec deficits and the $150Bill Medicare deficits a year now are NOT Trump's fault or Obama's fault or Bush's fault. We ALL KNEW for 30 years that the govt was stealing the SS surplus and the accounting was bogus.
This IS the Baby Boomer crisis. And it's getting progressively worse. And the INTEREST on the EXISTING ******* debt is ANOTHER 20% of the budget shortfall. We are on autopilot for past sins. And we're not repenting fast enough BECAUSE of the partisan finger pointing and blaming.
Time to Grow the **** up....
Why do you believe that? Why do you believe that SS and Medicare are the culprits?
It is weird.
Because Soc Sec is running a deficit since 2010 now and EVERY DOLLAR it has to cover comes from NEW DEBT issued by the treasury yearly. There's nothing of value to cover the shortfall in the phony Trust Fund but promises to pay.
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/history/pdf/tr09summary.pdf
Social Security’s annual surpluses of tax income over expenditures are expected to fall sharply this
year and to stay about constant in 2010 because of the economic recession,
and to rise only briefly before declining and turning to cash flow
deficits beginning in 2016 that grow as the baby-boom generation retires.
The combined difference grows each year, so that by 2016, net revenue
flows from the general fund would total $369 billion (1.8 percent of
GDP). The positive amounts that begin in 2016 for OASDI, and started in
2008 for HI, initially represent payments the Treasury must make to the
trust funds when assets are depleted to help pay benefits in years prior to
exhaustion of the funds. Neither the redemption of trust fund bonds, nor interest paid on those bonds, provides any new net income to the Treasury, which must finance redemptions and interest payments through some combination of increased taxation, reductions in other government spending, or additional borrowing from the public.
Same deal for the Medicare baby boomer crisis, but without the drama of the phony Trust Fund bookkeeping. These INCREASING expenses are sadistically called "off book debt" and come due right about NOW..
Together they are CURRENTLY less than 20% of the deficit.. BUt --- when you add on the DEBT (bond) REPAYMENTS -- you're up to about 40% of deficit that is the FAULT OF EVERYONE. Because it could have fixed over the past 30 years, but the 2 inept, corrupt parties PUNTED the ball to you and me.
Blaming this on the "party in power" is juvenile horse shit..
Eliminate the cap.
Keep the benefits reasonable.
Problem solved and nobody suffers.
Suffer=live golden years in pain or unable to buy a ******* toy for your grandchildren without giving up a ******* necessarily.
Get it?
The Social Security problem can be easily solved. We just don't demand our politicians solve it.
All we have to do is raise the Social Security and Medicare eligibility ages to 70, then index the eligibility age to 9 percent of the population going forward.
Problem solved.
But America's motto these days is, "Gimme gimme gimme, and make that guy over there pay for it."
So everyone needs to look in the mirror for the asshole ******* things up.