If Medicare and Social Security are going bankrupt then why not?

[Tom W]

Because it means that we all have to pay again for political corruption. The baby boomers are the biggest generation ever to pass through life and that is why there is a crisis in Social Security. NOT!!! That is a political myth. The baby boomers worked 40-45 years paying into SS and the fund was huge in the 70's,80, and 90s. HUGE. You cannot have politicians around cash so they looted it. The trial lawyers in Congress came up with a new scheme over disabilities. If you want to never work you can get a lifetime disability for a bad back, or alcoholism, or even drug addiction or depression. And then we had new social programs added into Social Security. Ever see the lawyers on TV telling you to call them and they will get your disability for you? That's what happened to SS, the politicians looted the fund and now we are told that the next generation must pay into it to make it solvent. It was solvent before. And in terms of financial trouble how much would it take to right the fund? Less than what Obama has shot off for someone unknown reason in Libya, or less than he is wasting in Afghanistan, or less than what Pakistan gets to be a paid enemy of the US. Its a matter of priorities, do we take care of our people, especially those who have paid in a gov fund for 45 years, or do we take care of the Middle Eastern mobs? Obama chooses overseas over us.