What's your take on this BS democrat babble about hacking into medicare and social security, Mr 5.0.
I hope I'm not the only one who can read between the lines? Why is it that there can never be a good spokesperson for the republican party debating this stuff on TV. They always make it seem so complicated to the average person, while the democrat dumbs it down to moron level!
The last debate I saw had the republican talking about how it was a conservative plan based on a 3% growth rate over the next 10 years, and that we'd come out ahead. He mentioned the fact that the plan removed 500 million or all of the medicare (SURPLUS), for those of you that do not understand surplus, that's the amount above and beyond the needed projected fund level for medicare, and an additional 1 billion in reserve funds including about 1/2 of the (SURPLUS) in the projected social security fund. That mean's social security is maintaining 50% of the SURPLUS in it's funding level. That's 50% of the current funding that is more than what the program is projected to need. It's still OVERFUNDED!
This 1.6 billion of additional reserve money is being pooled as in laymans terms a savings account. It doesn't have to be used on social security, it doesn't have to be used on medicare, or any other program, but it COULD be used for ANY program that needed extra funding. This money isn't being robbed, it's being reallocated to a large pool of money that can be tracked and dipped into IF it's ever needed to bail a program out.
I was able to figure this out listening to the republican side, and the democrat side argue back and forth. The only bad part is the republican spoke in a confusing matter (not for me) and the democrat cried "Run for the hills we're all gonna die!"
Also I've heard the democrat's arguing about this budget being based on a best case scenerio, which is a total load of crap. It's based on a 3% growth rate that the mainstream analyst's have forcasted. True, it could be worse than the 3% growth rate, or much much better, but there is an additional 1.6 BILLION in reserve to compensate for this, (if we go into an all out depression). Not to mention if this budget should be passed, we could always change it should the need arise later! It's not like congress will sit there going oh my god, what do we do for 8 years of depression! Damn, the democrates don't have even a slight leg to stand on, yet they can still preach their "The sky is falling!" babble.
This kind of blatently partisanship is what's holding this country back.
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