Nine "Democrats" who would use your Social Security as a bargaining chip

[bhikkhu]

51. How about explaining how there is no problem - if its a lie, explain it

as it has been well explained how there is a problem, which gets worse each year it is ignored or left alone.

Is there a plan to meet the increased funding needs of Social Security in 4 or 5 years? In 20? More importantly, is there a plan to meet the rising costs of Medicare and Medicare, or do we just say that all the numbers and projections are wrong? That's no way to govern, and no way to manage programs that people depend on.

Its easy enough to research, but here is one graphic:

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Of course, the Social Security deficit has been long-predicted, and a large fund was built up to service it, so its not such a big deal. Taken together with the rising costs of Medicare and Medicaid, however, its hard to say that a problem doesn't exist. What is the plan then, other than booting out of office any Democrat that tries to govern?

If a situation is created where Democrats are forbidden from addressing reality (as the GOP, for example, is forbidden from talking about climate change), then reasonable people would be required to elect republicans to manage things. Lets not adopt the tactic that made our opposition such a joke.