But I disagree with him on Social Security. It has nothing to do with the budget because it is financed through payroll deductions. Its payouts would be very adequate if the government would keep its hands off of it & stop raiding it to pay for other expenditures.
This is the part where I disagree; that instead of threatening the lifelong promise we've had throughout our careers of a secure retirement, the government should be focusing on the most glaring non-essential expense of all: the three wars! He even put Social Security & Medicare in the same 2/3-of-budget-expenditure group as national security -- what?!
(...)So here’s the truth. Around two-thirds of our budget is spent on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and national security.
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Finally, there are those who believe we shouldn’t make any reforms to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security out of a fear that any talk of change to these programs will usher in the sort of radical steps that House Republicans have proposed. I understand these fears. But I guarantee that if we don’t make any changes at all, we won’t be able to keep our commitments to a retiring generation that will live longer and face higher health care costs than those who came before.
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