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March 24, 2005

Deja Vu all over again

Medicare is completely screwed, so let's tinker with Social Security.

WaPo:

The two independent trustees overseeing Social Security and Medicare broke with the Bush administration's trustees yesterday, saying Medicare's financial problems far exceed Social Security's and are in urgent need of attention.

Republican Thomas R. Saving and Democrat John L. Palmer said Social Security's condition has changed little since they joined the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees in 2000. But in the trustees' report released yesterday, they wrote that Medicare's prospects have "deteriorated dramatically" with rising medical costs and the addition in 2003 of a prescription drug benefit.

"The financial outlook for Social Security has improved marginally since 2000," wrote Saving and Palmer. "In sharp contrast, Medicare's financial outlook has deteriorated dramatically over the past five years and is now much worse that Social Security's."

In what I can only describe as a shocking development, the two independent trustees are telling the public that the people Bush hired as trustees to inform them on Social Security are lying out of their asses. Who else is stunned?

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Just look at the guy with the big head, the loud voice and the fire shooting out from the fake canisters on either side of him. He'll tell you what's what.

This episode makes me wax fondly for the days leading up to the invasion of Iraq.

Remember?

Those that hijacked airplanes and flew them into buildings on 9/11 worked for Al Qaida. Al Qaida is led by Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden's base is Afghanistan. Bin Laden's training grounds were in Afghanistan. The Taliban who assisted Bin Laden are in Afghanistan.

Where did the US concentrate it's efforts?

Iraq.

Same song, second verse. (A little bit louder and a little bit worse)

Posted by Carla at March 24, 2005 08:28 AM