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08012 Re: Social Security trust fund projected to run dry by 2034
   ...another reason it won't work is because there are no savings. We ar...
ribit   POPE IV   24 Jun 2016
5:02 AM
07977 Re: Social Security trust fund projected to run dry by 2034
   This "house of cards" is otherwise known as a Ponzi scheme ....
Scarface   POPE IV   23 Jun 2016
9:22 PM

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Re: Social Security trust fund projected to run dry by 2034

By: Decomposed in POPE IV
Thu, 23 Jun 16 8:55 PM
Msg. 07970 of 47202
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Re: ”HOW you say? Simple. Shut down several of the worthless, expensive, unneeded Federal agencies“

Won't work. There's not nearly enough money.

While the entire U.S. GDP amounts to less than $17 trillion, the present value of future obligations is FAR higher. I've read figures ranging from $62 trillion to $225 trillion, and I'm inclined to go with the latter.

Most of those obligations are Medicare and Social Security. So, consider that Social Security has to come up with something on the order of $100 trillion, which is more than $300,000 per American including babies and the elderly, and the true scope of the Social Security disaster becomes clear.

The Medicare obligations are even worse.

There is NO SAVING THIS HOUSE OF CARDS. It's coming down. Protect yourself while you still can.
 




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