Here's the problem - in a nutshell from the HERITAGE FOUNDATION
BTW, based on other articles, these numbers are VERY conservatve. Some have the unfunded liability of Medicare alone at more than, get this, One Hundred Trillion Dollars!
It is nothing more than their unconstitutional efforts to fix an unconstitutionally created problem they initiated in the first place. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid along with a gaggle of other social "reforms" have yielded what some call the "Medicare Monster". These programs, especially Medicare, are black holes promulgated by unconscionable nonsense from earlier "progressive" movements such that we are now in technical bankruptcy.
If we had a judiciary that gave a damned for the Constitution, they would have slapped down the vast majority of legislation as unconstitutional decades ago.
The SCOTUS? They were apparently co-opted by Potomac Fever decades ago. The States, acting on our behalf may be our last and best hope.
$100 trillion for mediscare alone? And the zero is prepared to indebt future generations for three times that much. Hell, he doesn’t care, it’s not like it’s his money.
This pisses me off more than anything. The way Congress continues to ignore this HERD of elephants in the room and continue blindly lining their own nests with our tax dollars and bribes.