Replies to post #345433 on Simply Politics & News (GOV)

[Long2Retire]

It’s not clear whether Trump’s first budget will include reforms to Social Security or Medicare, two major drivers of the federal deficit.

Trump vowed during the campaign not to cut Medicare and Social Security, a pledge that Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), his pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, told lawmakers in testimony Wednesday has not changed.

Yet it could be very difficult to reduce U.S. debt without tackling the entitlement programs. Conservative House budgets have repeatedly included reforms to Medicare and Social Security, arguing they are necessary to save the programs.

Medicare and SS are not welfare programs. They are funded entitlements. Additional cuts should start with unfunded entitlements. SS COLA increases are less than COLA increases in salary. SS and Medicare deductions from salary are increasing faster than payments and benefits. Obama raped Medicare to pay for ACA. The Government had decades to prepare for Baby Boomers and deceitfully used SS money.

The rape of Americans who worked and paid has to stop. If that is what you mean by 'fix', I agree.

[moxa1]

How do you propose he "fix" Social Security and Medicare.