[KantianBurke]

The solution is simple but unpopular when it comes to taming the entitlement crisis- cut benefits, raise taxes or a combo of both. End of story.

[Lucky9teen]

I am beside myself with shock.

/sarc

[KantianBurke]

[Longbow1969]

The sad truth is, about half the country simply doesn’t care. They don’t care about any of these mid/long term disasters awaiting us. They simply do not care. As long as they get their money right now and can live for the moment on other people’s dime, roughly 50% of what we call the American public doesn’t give a darn about stuff like this.

[Sacajaweau]

It'll be 2 years that they're giving away billions in SS dollars via the 2% tax cut. While it surely put money into the economy, it was just another way to justify the new trillion debt level.

Scr** me know...scr** me later..but don't tell me this was a solution.

[microgood]

Medicare is the most poorly run program in the history of the world. There is no relation between the cost of a service and what Medicare pays. It is because of Medicare and Medicaid that our health care system is so screwed up, since they now pay about half of all health care costs in this country.

I met a guy on a cruise in Australia a few years ago (he was Australian) that had made 10s of millions of dollars selling those motorized wheel carts to Medicare. He was buying them in China and Taiwan for about 800 dollars and selling them to Medicare for about 5000. He bought as many as he possibly could and made a fortune until our idiot government finally figured out they were paying too much.

Come to think of it, maybe I should do something similar so I can retire early.

[PGalt]

Shut it down. Give back the money to “free” people who were FORCED to pay into it. Apologize to them.

Otherwise, like all other happy-faced, socialist-schemes, it will remain solvent via an increase in dead Americans...specifically seniors.

Johnsoncare/Hillarycare/Romneycare/Obamacare/Totalitariancare