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Social Security and Medicare, the government's two biggest benefit programs, remain under intense financial pressure with the retirement of millions of baby boomers and a devastating pandemic. Social Security will be unable to pay full benefits starting in 2034, a year earlier than previously forecast, due to impact of the crisis.

Wicked glee from Bill Gates to deny retired people their Social Security unless they get vaccinated. https://twitter.com/NewsAlternative/status/1423164308167352320

Just because we all sin against the environment doesn't mean we should believe every "green" idea To get a sense of how well-intentioned people can lose their bearings in the sea of green hype, consider the case of Fiji Water. With its bottles featuring images of pristine tropical flowers, the Fiji company started to worry when critics began bashing the environmental impact of water bottles, which will pile up in landfills for thousands of years. It got more worried when it became fashionable for consumers to calculate the carbon footprint of the products they buy—the amount of greenhouse gas emitted...

Raising retirement age or reducing benefits can't be ruled out if the Social Security system is to be saved from going bust, Rep. Charles Rangel said yesterday. "All of these things are on the table to find some way to make certain that Social Security is solvent," said Rangel, who is poised to take control of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. Rangel (D-Harlem) discussed the fate of Social Security - which some have estimated will have a cash-flow problem as soon as 2017 and run out of money by 2040 - during a Manhattan breakfast talk sponsored by...

BrookesNews.Com Headline: United Airlines says it can't pay $9.8 Billion in Pensions. Yet they have an infinitesimal problem compared to the Congress of the United States. Congress has an unfunded $11 Trillion Social Security "pension" they haven't either put in the bank or recorded on the people's books. The pilots and stewardesses think they have a problem. Wow, they have no idea what a problem really is. Yet our MSM, the Democrats, the liberal elite, Democrat Congressmen all proclaim "Hey, no problem, No hurry, we can obstruct Republicans" until the unrecorded liability is $25 Trillion (and we have to cancel...