Those are the hard facts.
However, the best political strategy is to explain, to retired people, that the liability, per Medicare beneficiary, is roughly $830.00 per person, per MONTH!
And, with that kind of liability, we can NOT afford anything else, not with the boomers hitting retirement age.
The hard facts are the Medicare will bankrupt this nation in a decade
However, accelerate that now with all of Obama’s reckless spending, and our day of reckoning is more like 3-4 years, whereas in 2007 it was about 12 years.
So with the Medicare disaster and with the Obama disaster the youth of this nation will be done, and will essentially be zombies during their most productive years because this nation is no longer solvent.
And Michael Steele has officially made us complicit in this crime of bankrupting America by throwing out whatever conservative principles his brain had left with this article