beastie wrote:While I'm asking questions that no one can answer, here's another one.
How in the world is Romney going to reduce the deficit when promising not to cut military, not to cut any benefits to medicare or social security, and lower taxes at the same time?
Experts agree that Romney's plan is not mathematically possible.
in my opinion, what needs done is simply politically impossible. I guess when most people can't manage to live within their means and stay out of personal debt, it doesn't surprise me at all that as a nation we've voted for policies that have produced what has now become an almost insurmountable debt. I can't see the budget ever being balanced. Debt truly does lead to slavery. Freedom is what would have been magnificent.
I've always hoped that the Republicans were lying and that deep down they intended to abolish social security. But that's a working mans dream, not the welfare reality.
Why should somebody in their 20's who is trying to pay off student debt, trying to get a career going, and trying to purchase a house have to pay extra-high insurance premiums to subsidize the health insurance of somebody in their low 60's who has his house paid off, who makes a six-figure income, and has a million dollars in his 401(k)?
Good grief what is happening. That's exactly what I would say.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
beastie wrote:Yes, Brackite, I know they're now backpedaling. All you've done is provide information that verifies my OP, which is that they're bending over backwards to convince seniors they will NOT be under Ryan's "magnificent plan". Obviously they realized the original Ryan budget was not so magnificent after all. But that doesn't change the fact that Romney said that the ORIGINAL Ryan plan was "magnificent", does it?
Based on the data from the Trustees’s Report and the CBO, the cost per capita of Medicare is expected to roughly double between now and 2040 and so is the number of enrollees. Here is the chart:
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Between 1975 and 2011, the number of Medicare enrollees doubled to 48 million, and the real cost per enrollee quintupled. By 2040, the Trustees calculate, the program will consume almost 6 percent of GDP (see pg.213), the cost will be nearly $21,000 for one beneficiary, and Medicare will cover about 88 million people.
This explains why free-market advocates have been demanding for years that Medicare be reformed and why it has been such a significant issue recently. There are different ways to reform the program, of course. You can see Yuval Levin’s detailed description of the Ryan plan last week; there are other options too. This chart is also the reason why I wrote last week that I hoped that when Republicans talk about “protecting Medicare,” they mean “reforming Medicare.”
This is the main reason why I support Congressman Paul Ryan's Plan on Medicare.
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