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Social Security reserves forecast to run dry in 2022

even the much-aligned Ryan Plan doesn't avoid this train wreck - we avoid it in his figures only thanks to some pretty optimistic projections on growth and long term interest rates.
Ryan's so-called plan is little more than a shell game. It merely removes costs from the government and dumps them onto ordinary people -- usually the poor and the elderly. The rich of course get more tax cuts. He's a Republican, after all. But moving costs is a very different thing from cutting costs. Ryan's plan fails to solve any problems because it is essentially a partisan facade that doesn't actually address any problems. In that sense, it doesn't count as a plan at all.

until we are willing to look the baby boomers in the eye and say "F You", we are F'd ourselves.
Ah, back to the divisive and self-serving refrain of generational contempt and hatred. Why is hatred such a fundamental building block of the right-wing anyway?
 
And that interest on it's bonds come\s from the interest on debt (outflow) we see in the federal budget?
Yes, that line item covers interest on the public debt without regard to the status of the noteholder. The interest owed to China is in there, the interest owed to Citibank is in there, the interest owed to your niece on her Savings Bond is in there, and the interest owed to Social Security is in there. You've seen one investor, you've seen them all. Treasury pays all of them the interest they are owed under the terms of the notes that they hold.
 
I'll respond to the rest later. but this - you know this is ludicrous, right?
Critique it if you can. Your toy soldiers have not been standing up well to live-fire, however.
 
Yes, that line item covers interest on the public debt without regard to the status of the noteholder. The interest owed to China is in there, the interest owed to Citibank is in there, the interest owed to your niece on her Savings Bond is in there, and the interest owed to Social Security is in there. You've seen one investor, you've seen them all. Treasury pays all of them the interest they are owed under the terms of the notes that they hold.
Thank you! I suspected as much from reading but just wasn't quite sure.

Ah, back to the divisive and self-serving refrain of generational contempt and hatred. Why is hatred such a fundamental building block of the right-wing anyway?
Fear and hate, very closely related.
 
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