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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13147931/Medicare-Social-Security-crisis-underfundingdouble-economic-output-country-Earth.html

Medicare and Social Security are both in crisis as underfunding
hits $175 TRILLION - almost double the economic output of every
country on Earth

. . .

And whomever TOUCHES those programs will NEVER get elected,
probably strung-up by mobs of old people.

Ya know though, budgets for everything ELSE were increased
incrementally over the years - how, and why, did SS/MC get
left out of that ??? HAD to be deliberate.

Hey, both programs are not 'entitlements' - you PAID IN,
rather a lot, over the long years. So, IMHO, what you
pay for you should GET. That's honest biz.

Oh, if you think the USA has a problem here, look into
the demographic disasters in South Korea and Japan.
SK is down to well under half the "replacement rate" for
births. There's no real "new generation" there, and no
money/help for the older gens. May as well sell it to
China while the price is good. They un-bred themselves
out of existence.

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