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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (9411)	7/19/2004 3:31:38 PM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 116555

Your figures assume nothing will be done before 2018. That is an eternity from now and can be corrected with a solution as easy as increasing the retirement age. Do you remember what happened to the last politician who suggested raising the retirement age? Did you vote for them? No Democrat has ever been so brave as to suggest so publicly and most Republicans have been skewered for saying as much. Clearly the age will rise, but are you voting for the person who will be the one who will have the courage to do it? To imply though that it is those "social" programs is dishonest. I didn't say this, you did. I said the fastest growing budget item is HHS. The Social Security/Medicare liability is growing even faster than HHS and will dwarf the current budget if it continues on track, this isn't a figure that is in dispute, it has been known for 20 years or more. It is the primary flaw in a "pay as you go" retirement plan. Like any Ponzi scheme it requires that new investors pay off the original "investors", the scheme collapses when the exponential growth of new investors can't continue. You can choose to believe the crap the press feeds you or you can actually look at the budgets over the last 30 years and see for yourself where the money goes. Don't take my word for it, do what I did and look at the budgets, it's all public information. You need the will to discover on your own instead of eating what you are fed. Question authority, it is the basic tenet of a liberal education.