Willful Ignorance

All of the Republicans are screaming about how Social Security's insolvency is just on the horizon, right? In 2018, the expenditures will exceed revenues! In 2042, it will be completely broke!

Guess what they're not talking about. According to the recently released trustees' report, Medicare's expenditures exceeded revenues last year (2004)! It will go flat fucking broke in 2019! How about that, President Bush? Why the clamoring over Social Security instead of Medicare? I'd like to say something sarcastic and conspiratorial, but actually, I can't even speculate why there's such a focus on social security. He's just an idiot, I guess.

And that's not even mentioning that in the overall budget Bush just submitted, the expenditures exceed the revenues by something like $400 billion dollars. And that's um... you know, NEXT year. Idiot.