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The problem in a nutshell: the first wave of Baby Boomers, born between the years of 1946 and 1964, officially reached retirement age in 2011.

The problem in a nutshell is the Gubmint which is made up of 537 elected officeholders to the executive and legislative branch from both political party elites are LYING scum.

The population is INCREASING and the work foce is DECREASING yet the unemployment rate does not reflect that shift because the Gubmint be cooking the books by trickery such as adding 3.5 million to SSI disability in the Barry's socialist term of office.

The demographics of the babyboomers may be a problem, but the problem in a NUTSHELL is that the population is INCREASING while the workforce is DECREASING and that my friends is the CLASSIC definition of socialism.

Conservatives to a man agree that Social Security and Medicare are Ponzi schemes, dependent on ever increasing new enrollees to pay for benefits to people above them in the pyramid.

Leftists, and I regret to say that a few conservatives, offer the solution of increased immigration. If the original Ponzi had said, "the only thing wrong with my scheme is that I didn't get enough new suckers", we would be outraged.

Waves of new immigrants which have more than doubled the population of America in my lifetime not only will not cure our Ponzi dilemma, they will force us into choosing between liberty and protection from our neighbors who intrude ever closer in upon our space. But worse, far worse, the wave of immigrants who do not share our language, culture, respect for the rule of law, understanding of democracy, historical legacy, and commitment to capitalism will vote us into irretrievable socialist bondage.

This is really what the argument over Ryan's solution to Medicare is all about. He is trying to save the Republic not just from fiscal insanity but from the loss of our representative democracy itself.

RE :” The problem in a nutshell is the Gubmint which is made up of 537 elected officeholders to the executive and legislative branch from both political party elites are LYING scum.”

YEP, Democrats say there is NO problem(that raising taxes on the rich wont cure) .
But Republicans wanting the senior vote say that there wont be a problem for another 15 years so that the gubment is flush with money NOW to hand out to the retired now, just later in the future is the problem. Oh, and the two are NOT connected. Money handed to seniors now does not affect Medicare later.

RE :”The population is INCREASING and the work foce is DECREASING yet the unemployment rate does not reflect that shift because the Gubmint be cooking the books by trickery such as adding 3.5 million to SSI disability in the Barry's socialist term of office.”
”The demographics of the babyboomers may be a problem, but the problem in a NUTSHELL is that the population is INCREASING while the workforce is DECREASING and that my friends is the CLASSIC definition of socialism”

Democratic Socialism.
It means that those NOT working can outvote those who do. And the Republicans party will be going for some of those non-working folks votes with spending $$$$ trying to get away with playing both sides, as the Dems do.