To: facedown
The choice is not about the extent to which current and prospective recipients of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will continue to receive benefits. The choice is about whether they will receive them at all. Under Ryan's plan, they will probably continue to do so. If we retain them in their current form, which appears to be Obama's option, they will certainly bankrupt the government sooner than most people expect and therefore cease to be payable at all.
Ryan wants to address the problem. Democrats want to kick the can down the road and demagogue it to attain victory in one more election.
5 posted on
08/13/2012 12:56:34 PM PDT by
p. henry
To: p. henry
People are forgetting that the
GIGANTIC number of people born at the beginning of the
Baby Boom generation between 1945 and 1950 are now starting to hit retirement age. Because of that, the demands on Social Security and Medicare are going to spike through the roof, and that could hasten the financial demise of these two entitlement programs.
Rep. Ryan recognizes this, and has already laid out a framework of plans to keep Social Security and Medicare from being wiped out as more and more of Baby Boom generation enters retirement age.
11 posted on
08/13/2012 1:34:26 PM PDT by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: p. henry
Typically government dependents of an overwhelmingly powerful nation do not accept cuts in their benefits until their military is no longer able to coerce those benefits from other nations.
Many Americans seem aware that that is the situation we are headed for.
Wheter enough I don’t know. It’s in the media’s interest to convince it’s consumers the gravy train runs for ever so the information that the current source of those goodies is empty is bring suppressed ny them.
28 posted on
08/13/2012 6:32:22 PM PDT by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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