re: The Coming Social Security Crisis

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Raising the SS benefit age is tantamount to increasing taxes and growing government.

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Up in the air like Mary Lou Retton!

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Congress made its promise, appropriate funding as promised.

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Compresses can’t pass laws that encumber future congresses. Congress, literally, cannot pass a “promise”. SS and Medicare have always been up to the whims of Congress. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Yeah, I know that’s not what we’ve been told. But believing politicians’ “promises” was never a good idea. They lie. A lot.