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I read the article and no, I do not see that there is no getting around the severity of the situation. The very last plot is ridiculous, how can they even extra

• supernova87a 4y ago
  Maybe you should read more about it. If you know how many people are going to be aging into the Social Security system, and needing Medicare/Medicaid, and some simple assumptions about the budget and tax revenue, you can easily generate the approximate shape and amounts of those financial projections. It is so simple a calculation and so ridiculous a situation, as you say (but in a different way than you mean), that this is a huge problem that will have to be confronted. The CBO generates those kinds of calculations, and they're not a group known for making up things out of thin air.