Everyone knows that the U.S. budget is being devoured by entitlements

[PITTSTON2SARASOTA]

Originally Posted by Loveshiscountry

Easy enough to solve. Slash the military budget, bring our troops home which would save us tons of money and lives. Use that money to keep entitlements afloat while changes are put in place to preserve some of the entitlements for future generations.
Course you can't convince the party of war, the dems, about that. You could before Obama got in office but since then the dems have become spineless. Richard Steele was right, when he said what a lot of the repubs were afraid to say, this is Obamas war now.

OMG.....The Dems got us into the Iraq Invasion......... I have a question.......Does this rag smell of chloroform???????.

[PITTSTON2SARASOTA]

Originally Posted by Wonderful Jellal

Everyone knows that the U.S. budget is being devoured by entitlements. Everyone also knows that of the Big Three - Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security - Social Security is the most solvable.
Back-of-an-envelope solvable: Raise the retirement age, tweak the indexing formula (from wage inflation to price inflation) and means-test so that Warren Buffett's check gets redirected to a senior in need.
The relative ease of the fix is what makes the Obama administration's Social Security strategy so shocking. The new line from the White House is: no need to fix it because there is no problem. As Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew wrote in USA Today just a few weeks ago, the trust fund is solvent until 2037. Therefore, Social Security is now off the table in debt-reduction talks.



Charles Krauthammer - Et tu, Jack Lew?

So true

ROFL.....you do realize that Social Security is still solvent and paying for itself! It is the government raiding the Social Security Trust Fund for other purposes that drives up the deficit!

[Loveshiscountry]

Originally Posted by PITTSTON2SARASOTA

OMG.....The Dems got us into the Iraq Invasion......... I have a question.......Does this rag smell of chloroform???????.

In no way whatsoever did I even infer the dems got us into the illegal invasion. (although enough did vote for it)

I have a question....... Does your lack of comprehension at times cause you to misinterpret things?

[pollyrobin]

Originally Posted by Wonderful Jellal

Everyone knows that the U.S. budget is being devoured by entitlements. Everyone also knows that of the Big Three - Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security - Social Security is the most solvable.

The new line from the White House is: no need to fix it because there is no problem. the trust fund is solvent until 2037. Therefore, Social Security is now off the table in debt-reduction talks.

Good.

Everyone knows the U.S. budget is being devoured by
the military and all auxiliary programs that are part of it.
The big three guzzlers are the Defense Department (Pentagon), Homeland Security, and the State Department.
Add in interest on present and past wars... The relative ease of the fix is to close bases around the world, quit giving military foreign aid and quit occupying nations
^^^ ^^^^^
The money for the above has been insolvent since way before 1969 - thus the borrowing/stealing from domestic program e.g. S.S.

I don't care what you do with Medicaid - that's welfare
and frankly it does not belong in the same category of
Medicare or Social Security. Those folks have not paid
a dime into it.

Try this:

You protect your country by staying home
You save a lot of money

Oh, and tell all the religious who think these are
signs of some second coming - sorry, just signs of
greed and stupidity.

[Crossfire600]

Originally Posted by newonecoming2

Upping minimum wage far enough for the minimum wage workers to be able to pay their own way with out support is the way to go.

Minimum wage jobs are not meant to feed a family and live the American dream. If you want to get a job that will feed the family then apply for student loans and grants like most folks do and get a degree. The idea that a burger flipping job at McDonalds should pay enough live the American Dream is ludicrous. Besides the fact that McDonals probably pays more than minimum wage to flip burgers and if they paid based on your idea then a burger would cost $10.00 and you would be out of business.

Basic economics.. When wages and associated costs go up so does the price of the product.