Remember When Harry Reid Said:“Today’s report confirms that the so-called Social Security crisis exists in only one place — the minds of Republicans,” said Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. “In reality, the program is on solid ground for decades to come.”
Correct me if I am wrong, but a decade is 10 years and decades would be at least 20 years. Harry Reid made that statement On March 23, 2005. Well 4 years and 2 1/2 months later we have this:
Michelle Malkin » Hey, Harry Reid, do you think we have an entitlement crisis yet?.
Social Security and Medicare are fading even faster under the weight of the recession, heading for insolvency years sooner than previously expected, the government warned Tuesday. Social Security will start paying out more in benefits than it collects in taxes in 2016, a year sooner than projected last year, and the giant trust fund will be depleted by 2037, four years sooner, trustees reported.
Medicare is in even worse shape. The trustees said the program for hospital expenses will pay out more in benefits than it collects this year, just as it did for the first time in 2008. The trustees project that the Medicare fund will be depleted by 2017, two years earlier than the date projected in last year’s report.
The trust funds — which exist in paper form in a filing cabinet in Parkersburg, W.Va. — are bonds that are backed by the government’s “full faith and credit” but not by any actual assets. That money has been spent over the years to fund other parts of government. To redeem the trust fund bonds, the government would have to borrow in public debt markets or raise taxes.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the head of the trustees group, said the new reports were a reminder that “the longer we wait to address the long-term solvency of Medicare and Social Security, the sooner those challenges will be upon us and the harder the options will be.”
May 13, 2009 - 08:24 AM on May 13th, 2009
I remember well. Once again, the verminous Democrites are caught in a hypocritical lie. The problem is, we know it, we see it, but how many of those who make up the voting masses see it and realize it? Not enough, apparently.
May 20, 2009 - 01:35 PM on May 20th, 2009
Scary harry Reid is still a scary wacko dork
July 6, 2009 - 03:03 PM on July 6th, 2009
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