[B. A. Conservative]

Your thoughts about who, where and how they die certainly frighten me and I am a retired physician. I am not making assumptions. Those are actuarial projections from SS itself and from the Cato institute. It is my opinion that there are no political acceptable compromises that can resolve the shortfall.

And last but not least, these programs are an abomination that should be eliminated from the face of the earth and should never have occured in the first place. Especially not in the USA. There is no Constitutional authority for either.

[snopercod]

It is my opinion that there are no political acceptable compromises that can resolve the shortfall.

Inflation is always the political solution of choice. That's how the U.S. paid for the Vietnam war and the "Great Society" at the same time. IMHO, that's also how this recent "war on terrorism" will be paid for.

In addition, I think the SS/Medicare ponzi scheme will be "paid for" the same way. We can only hope that we don't have to go through what the Germans of the Weimar Republic did in the 1920s...