Quote:
Originally Posted by KMA
I already answered your question above
|
I seem to have trouble understanding your answer. Could you make it clear?
Is Social Security taxes and expenses part of General Government Revenue or not?
If it helps, I'll explain my personal position:
It is my position that the US government's general budget is in far worse shape than the government in power claims it is. They are trying to shovel their problems into a 'social security crisis', when the crisis is a crisis of massive unsustainable deficit financing in congress's discretionary budget.
There is a pig-in-the-python crisis that is coming, where the ratio of the number of elderly people to the number of working people shrinks. Fancy financial footwork won't solve this. If we wish to keep the elderly from destitution, the burden on the workers will increase, no matter how you arrange it or pretty it up, short of a change in the working habits of the elderly or a demographic shift.
Luckly, this is less of my problem than it is yours. =)
Quote:
Originally Posted by KMA
I understand your distaste for Bush, but it isn't the "current administration", it is a whole slew of them.
|
Past administrations have no power to impact the future -- not anymore. Current ones do. You can look into the past for causes, but looking into the past for blame doesn't help fix the problem. There is currently a problem.