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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: John Koligman who wrote (6145)2/17/2009 1:46:04 PM
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From what I have also read, SS can be pretty easily fixed for many more years with some tweaking if done soon

The big problem is that future spending from the program will be too expensive. There is no way to easily fix that by just tweaking a few things.

You can increase SS taxes, and the "trust fund", will have a positive balance for longer, perhaps even indefinitely, but that isn't really fixing the problem.

Your right that Medicare is an even tougher problem.

You seem pretty worried about a large stimulus bill, but just look at the amount of national debt piled up under Shrub.

To the extent that Bush has done a poor job in terms of fiscal management (and whether or not we agree on the exact extent, it seems we agree on the basic idea that he has done a poor job in this area), that makes the stimulus bill more of a problem not less of one.

Its not "its OK for me to do this because he did it first". Its "he spent the money, now we can't afford to be similarly spendthrift".
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