First off, I really applaud the guy for making a sincere effort, no matter what you may think about how he gets the job done (which, btw, is 25 years away in his plan).
That said, I've been looking for a way to greatly simplify this whole debate and with some quick math and good ole Google (fact-check away), here's what I came up with: The question is, what do we think the administrative overhead of the US gov't should be? i.e., what size? * Under Reagan it was about 22% of GDP * Under Obama's recommendation (can't call it a budget yet) is about 24% * Under Ryan it's 20% The big variable here is, of course, the baby boomers. Under Reagan we didn't have the boomers on social security, Medicare, and Medicaid (80% of healthcare cost is at end-of-life). So just thumb-nailing it out, it doesn't seem like there's any way in hell we can get by at 20% (unless we're willing to massively limit entitlements). Just sayin. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:336139 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
