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Remember when Democrats block Social Security Reform

September 22nd, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

now it is due to have a negative cash flow in 2010/2011… I said it then, and will say it again, politicizing Social Security by the Democrats was bad for the country

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/22/exclusive-cbo-predicts-social-security-cash-deficits-in-2010-11/

>>> Four years ago, George W. Bush attempted to reform the entitlement program Social Security, warning that the system was accelerating into collapse and would soon run deficits. Democrats scoffed and claimed the Social Security system was solid and wouldn’t have problems for at least 50 years, as Harry Reid told PBS’ Jim Lehrer in June 2005. Just last year, the CBO — under the direction of Peter Orszag, now budget director in the Obama administration — claimed that the first cash deficits in Social Security would not come until 2019.

Now, however, the CBO has determined that Social Security will run cash deficits next year and in 2011, and by 2016 will be more or less in permanent deficit mode.

  1. MJ
    September 22nd, 2009 at 20:58 | #1

    There are exactly three (3) fixes (or combinations thereof) for this ‘program’:

    o reduce the payment o increase the tax o change the pool of payment recipients

    What is to be ‘reformed’?

    This is a ponzi scam that should be abolished.

    Regard$,

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