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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (759366)12/24/2013 4:26:38 AM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (2) of 1575446
 
>If true, then the budgets of SS and Medicare wouldn't be growing in both absolute dollars and percentage of the federal budget. Instead, they would remain a fixed percentage of the budget, which would have been determined a generation or two after their creations.

Huh? On what planet does that make sense? Both of those programs are affected by the population aging (though not to the extent some seem to think), and Medicare goes up because the cost of medical care goes up (which in the last three years, it hasn't much, and Medicare is becoming more and more solvent long-term because of that).

So yes, there are more people becoming dependent of Medicare and Social Security. But that's not because those programs make people more likely to take those; age does.

-Z
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