One more thing.
“You can’t cut medicare or social security, and most of that is covered by the trust funds anyway.”
If you truly believe that and you believe in arithmetic then you should take all your savings, turn them into metal and leave the country.
It is covered by the trust fund on a current basis, for the most part. What’s not covered is the future benefits. But they don’t need to pay those now. There are slight deficits in the current benefits on both social security and medicare now. But they would be easy to cover, at least for 2011, and even 2012.
The GOP can’t cut social security or medicare, despite what some like Ryan would like to do. It’s foolish to try. They’ll just earn themselves a bus ticket home if they do. They don’t have a mandate to do that, and it will take a mandate, at least if they don’t have the support of the Dems, and they don’t.
The best thing for them to do about medicare and social security is tell the Dems, “You created these programs. You broke them. Now you’ve gotta fix them.”