Stepping on the Third Rail: "Reductions" to Social Security and Medicare ?

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http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/05/politics/o...index.html

"CNN) -- President Barack Obama's upcoming budget will include proposed changes to Social Security and Medicare plus some new tax increases, changes that are an effort for the president to reach a deficit deal with Republicans, according to senior administration officials.
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I love how the mass media calls a recalculation method a 'Reduction'. It's all forecast voodoo anyway. Considering many of these proposals initiated in the Republican Party, how will the AARP crowd react ?

Yeah... probably not well anyway. Cash in hand tends to trump ideology when you're on a fixed income.

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Let's establish two facts before we get any further.

1.) Social Security is not broken. What's broken is that Congress has borrowed the surplus to fund its other programs (as it does with every bond ever sold), and now does not want to pay back what it borrowed.

2.) Medicare is the lowest overhead health program in the country. If you want to meet a goal (healthcare for the elderly and chronically infirm) in the most efficient way, you got it.

You may continue.

[samintx]

1.) Social Security is not broken. What's broken is that Congress has borrowed the surplus to fund its other programs (as it does with every bond ever sold), and now does not want to pay back what it borrowed.

I think it goes even further than "surplus". It is a fund kitty for any yeawho that needs a dime for some state feel good project. PAYBACK? where would they get the money? another tax on you and me when we have already paid into the system. Talk about double taxing. Time to start dumping the tea overboard along with congress.