CBO Report is Damning for Ideologues - Right and Left

[TheKentuckian]

27. The stupid thing consistently missed, so I'm left to assume it is willful, is that the safety net

is working so lives are extended. That is a feature not a bug. We don't want our seniors dropping off due to lack of access to health care. We put a floor in to slow down the starving in the streets. Logic inevitably leads to longer lives for those that survive to the age, it is the intent of having the programs.

Of course most of the increase is decreased infant mortality and we like to forget that the age has already been raised, the contribution increased, and to be fair the cap raised some too but the job pool is shrinking and we cannot foresee or even reasonably speculate on an environment where there will be an overall labor shortage nor is there much evidence to support any translation between any token increase in overall longevity and workplace longevity, which if actual employer practices are any indicator is actually declining at an alarming rate.

The question is not how to cut the spending but rather how to at least resource a critical minimum such as we have because to do otherwise is to turn our backs on civilization and decent society a little at a time rather than to come up with pocket change that will far better serve the VAST majority of souls in those senior years.

It is about choices and priorities and absolutely nothing else. Medicare due to overall medical inflation is one thing but Social Security? Social Security is pure priorities. I call for at least one percent to be set aside for long term care. Most never use it but the funding is bad situation and could at least use such a stress reliever and make some really accommodation for a tough reality for some.