[america4vr]

Politicians have been passing the New Deal buck onto next generation's financial burdens, but some astute financial watchdogs won't allow the likes of Hillary to fashion some fancy electioneering bait on pie-in-the-sky numbers that won't add up.

[robomatik]

problem is- some will

[bruinbirdman]

I have heard only one presidential candidate address the Social Security Ponzi Scheme. It is usually a no-no during campaigns. The media never asks the question.

yitbos

[counterpunch]

Fred Thompson has the solution to fix Social Security and Medicare.
We’ve been kicking the can down the road for too long, and it’s about to come back to kick our asses.
We need a candidate who can offer the right solutions for America’s economy, not a “me too” counter-proposal to Hillary’s plan like Mike Huckabee!

[Alberta's Child]

The U.S. government has already begun to deal with the Social Security and Medicare ponzi schemes -- it's just that they haven't told anyone about it.

The plan that has been put in motion is simple . . . in involves nothing more than the gross under-reporting of inflation on a year-by-year basis. Folks may have noticed that the Federal government has been reporting inflation rates of around 2.5% to 2.7% even as the prices for most of the necessities in our lives have increased at rates of 5%, 10%, or even more.

You think this is just a statistical anomaly? Of course not. This allows entitlement spending to increase at rates that don't even keep up with inflation over time, which means nobody gets a cut in their government hand-outs but eventually we'll notice that a government check that used to pay the rent can barely even cover the cost of a can of dog food.