2016: The National "Cry For Help"

[Warren Dew]

(01-03-2017, 04:36 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Social Security and Medicare are not problems, and are not the cause of the debt. They are paid-for programs. Relatively speaking, Social Security is better paid for than Medicare, but basically it's the same deal.

False.  Social Security has unfunded liabilities of $32 trillion, not counting Medicare.  That dwarfs the nominal debt of $17 trillion or so.