Now, to blame the American people for the Medicare mess is unsavory. I have paid into Medicare for decades, supporting those who qualified for it while I didn't. Needless to say, like all insurance programs, Medicare is a ponzi scheme relying on those not needing the service to pay for those who do.
The brutal indebtedness of the Western Democracies is a direct measure of their utility to the world.
Each and every is a liability...a millstone around the necks of its citizens...and any assets whatsoever in them accrue only to the benefit of their administrators and enablers-i Brussels and in Washington.
There are some good ideas. If at least parts of the reccomendations get enacted and ObamaCare gets repealed or ruled unconstitutional, it won’t be hopeless.
I get the feeling that we actually have and economic gorilla war being waged against us by the hard left/communist/progressives. They are trying to bankrupt us.
BS, the budget “crisis”(”Never let a good crisis go to waste” - Rahm “It down their Throats” Emmanuel)is eminently solvable. Give me five people - a retired couple, parents raising a family and a single mom) - a week in a hotel and I’ll give you a balanced budget.
I’ll also give you a deficit reduction plan that will eliminate all debt in five years. Of course, the LIBs and RINOs will go ape-sh!* over it.
"Rising health care costs" wouldn't be a national problem if individuals were responsible for paying their own way. Each person or family would choose how much income to devote to medical expenditures, based on personal priorities.
Government *is* the problem.