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Originally Posted by The_Rorschach
High budget deficits and the resulting rise in the National Debt are traditional ways to get rid of 'entitlement programs'. Take for instance the huge change in Public Assistance [Welfare] since the soaring deficits of the Reagan and Bush Sr. Administrations.
Now, the target is Social Security and Medicare, previously untouchable but now with shocking large deficits and debt, a case will be made that these programs must be reduced. And they will be. Just watch ...
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Oh yeah, and on the second bit, I think you need to explain just how these programs can work over the long haul
without failing and dragging us down.