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"BTW, I disagree 100% that the US will "go bankrupt" in 2016."

Feel free to disagree. SS is only 20% of the problem of insolvency; Medicare is the other 80%. The Cato plan for the voluntary privatization of SS is viable, but Medicare cannot be fixed. Socialism doesn't work. When somebody who considers themselves a conservative such as yourself does not recognize the problem, let alone not recognize the severity of the problem, then you begin to get a feel for just how bad things really are.

CobaltBlue is a beautiful color, but the ink the country is drowning is red, and wishful thinking is not going to put things back into the black.

Economic projections are based on assumptions. I never trust economic projections that are as far out as 2016. I am only 51 but have already seen many, many economic projections bite the dust, not to mention global cooling.

I think it's fair to say that there are problems which need to be solved.