Posted on 12/17/2007 1:11:03 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Annual financial report: http://www.fms.treas.gov/fr/index.html
Sweet! I’m going to keep saving like crazy and bail out of this country before the fiscal collapse. I’m guessing I have about 20 years...maybe.
I know, lets give the sub human Palestinians our tax money. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pledged $555 million for 2008. That should help all concerned.
Regards
GWB had us all mobilized on fixing SocSec and then let it die. If his intent here is to get it fixed and have the necesary blame pinned on him, that is pretty noble. But I doubt very much that anything at all can be accomplished now that all of the House and 1/3 of the Senate is entering campaign mode. No Congresscritter is going to want to explain the pain that is coming. And no way privatizing which is the only hope of fixing it will be allowed to happen. Nope, our grandkids must decide that our quality of life falls below acceptable norms and give us the Terri treatment.
It is the "social safety net" which is ruining the economy.
Democrats, and lobbyists including AARP, rejected the Bush Administration’s attempts to address this issue. Democrats seemed to say Congress can fix this problem like it always has—raise taxes. Democrats were offended that Republicans would dare try to tinker with FDR’s great gift to posterity.
President Bush didn't let it die. Conservatives threw Bush to the wolves when the MSM started their "illegal immigration" media campaign in order to derail the Social Security issue. The liberals in the MSM played popular conservatism against the President on the immigration issue in order to kill general support for the President's other initiatives - from the WOT to Social Security reform... and it worked.
Chump change to the Democrats. Let the rich pay it.
This is more about Medicare. Much of this projected shortfall is his own making due to the drugs for old people program.
45 Tril, thats nice, we can sell every dam thing in our country and that might cover the balance.
Mountains, lakes, bases, forks, spoons,quakers, Vegas. All of it.
Wow, another blue-ribbon, "bi-partisan" commission -- that's sure to work.....
No problem, we’ll just raise taxes...
Or hell better yet, just give your entire check to us, your trustworthy gov’t, and we’ll provide you everything you need so you can continue to not care and watch reality shows.
I really wasn’t on board with Bush’s plan, but I did like the direction he was taking it.... away from Uncle Sam.
Even if you plopped that money into an online savings account such as HSBC has, etc, you’re be doing better than Social Security.
And Bush. Prescription Drug Program.
I haven’t looked at the report link, as you suspect, I’m not sure if they were included,, maybe they are in an intangibles section.
I think Medicare is a bigger issue than Social Security. And I don’t think Bush’s drug plan helped Medicare. Looking at the report it appears Medicare and interest on debt are the biggest increases in future liabilities - with interest being the largest by far.
Let’s be fair..
Dept of Edumacation and NCLB ;-)
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iiJF_K2TY_t3bDU8qqlvjhJk63xwD8TJBH2G0I
know, lets give the sub human Palestinians our tax money.
A little hear and, a little there. We the people no longer exist, it’s, we your “government”
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