Social Security also produces 25% of the revenue. Are you taking that into account? The Department of Defense, on the other hand, is revenue negative but eats as much of the budget as Social Security even without the inclusion of all of the emergency spending bills.
You sure have a fixation on Social Security being the only problem. I don't see it. If the Government would pay back the money appropriated from the Social Security fund and keep their hands off it, it would be exactly what it was intended to be - income for those workers who paid into it paid out of the withholding with no need to tap the general fund. It's not like we old folks are ripping off you youngsters. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Robert Munn <cfmuns...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Here is the FY10 budget by category. Take a look: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fy2010_spending_by_category.jpg > > Social Security and Medicare account for 32% of the FY10 budget, and > that number is set to explode as the Boomers retire. Our entire way of > life is captive to these two social programs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328371 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
