[TomGuy]

Social Security and Medicare are on an “unsustainable course” and will run out of funds by ...[pick a year]

Pols have been using this ploy for decades. They holler that SS/M are about to go broke. Then, just in time, Congress passes another bill to 'sustain' SS/M for a few more years.

Same song, same verse, different year.

[gloryblaze]

Pols have been using this ploy for decades. They holler that SS/M are about to go broke. Then, just in time, Congress passes another bill to 'sustain' SS/M for a few more years....

No, that's just it: they pass nothing, and just keep on keeping on. A few responsible Republicans will suggest facing reality and the Dems pounce and win the day.

Can successfully kicked.

[CatHerd]

Yes, and now the Dems are also using SS to breed resentment in young people who “bear the burden of supporting retired Boomers” and getting nothing for themselves when they retire because “Social Security will be gone by then.” And it’s working. Divide, divide, divide.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Why don’t we ever hear “them” say that welfare is going broke?

Something to think about.....

[joma89]

Oh sure...they are “sustaining” it through unmitigated borrowing from foreign countries (mainly china and japan) that is now up to $31 trillion in debt. What a genius solution. /s