White House Refuses To Consider Social Security’s Role in Debt, Deficits
As fiscal-cliff negotiations heated up, the White House signaled it wouldn't give ground on Social Security because, as press secretary Jay Carney said, it "is not currently a driver of the deficit. That's an economic fact."
Well, to paraphrase former Democratic Sen. Patrick Moynihan, facts are not an entitlement and the facts say otherwise — even more so in the wake of the fiscal-cliff tax hike.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that over the next decade Social Security's annual cash deficit will rise by nearly $100 billion, reaching $155 billion a year. The cost of servicing the extra public debt tied to cashing in $1 trillion worth of Social Security's intragovernmental IOUs over the 10 years would add $40 billion to the deficit in 2022 alone, an IBD analysis finds.
Source: Investors Business Daily. Read full article. (link)
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LEADERSHIP FROM SERIOUS MEN.
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Government is very clear about this, there are more reasons behind debts and they are working on it.
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