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I'm starting to be convinced that WWIII

Will be the direct result of our Partisan bickering. And we'll lose, because we wont galvanize as a nation the way we did in previous World Wars.
I bet the parties will have different countries each considers Allies.

Obama has thoroughly vandalized the Fucking pump beyond repair.

And you don't need a weather man to know which way the chickens will come home to roost.

"unsustainable" my ass.

Social security is a pass-through between generations. As long as the generations match in size, and the cost-of-living of seniors matches that of the younger generations (and why would it not), SS is perfectly sustainable.

Medicare "sustainability" (next decade as the baby boom ages from their sixties into their 70s) requires wringing the excess profits out of our health sector.

Public employee retirement costs are indeed a big-ass expense, one that past and present politicians have been able to foist on us and future generations cost-free (to them), and will require mature political solution to reach an equitable (to the pensioners and taxpayers) solution and "sustainable" balance.

I don't have any answer to that last issue. "Somebody set us up the bomb" as it were.

Even the aging boomers shall pass. There are easy solutions it seems to me: raise the cap or make a donut hole, or both; raise FICA a point or two; raise retirement age.

Pay-go is easy, and even easier when there was been a large surplus for the non-boomer retirement period.