A Legacy of Debt (Trailer)

The entitlement programs—Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—have been growing on autopilot, and as baby boomers start to retire, costs will explode. This spending threatens to saddle future generations with massive taxes and debt, yet Congress has neglected to address the problem. To get entitlements back on track, all of us must begin to have a conversation about these issues and meet the problem head on.

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News & Politics

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• entitlements
• federal
• government
• social
• security
• medicare
• medicaid
• heritage
• foundation

[dice228YT]

look at the massive senior care industry - mostly funded by govt- I MEAN TAXPAYERS...

parents are hauled away to a cold and stark home to die...

[dice228YT]

Children moved far away from parents and isolated themselves- also the FAMILY unit as whole has disappeared from large segments of the population- look at the decline in births...

Children do not hold the same passion for elders as they once held- and in all due respects- seniors are left as wards of the state... look at the massive senior care

[dice228YT]

what happened to the notion of family is SOCIAL SECURITY - and MEDICARE and MEDICAID - parents were falsely given these buffers- if every penny invested by the employee and employer were put into savings and retirement accounts instead of the government control- they would have much more to retire on.... without govt involvement- and the theft of these funds would hot have happened-

[13otany13ay]

How clever of you, dear Heritage Foundation:

First you advise President Bush to start two wars overseas and to create the debt. Then you tell the american people its all the fault of the White House. Now the american people have to help themselves.

I wonder how you will explain this to your kids one day when they ask: What have you done to improve the life of the people?

[mcgloinm]

Yes, you're exactly right! We do need to do something: like nationalize all energy and distribution sources, we must regulate banks so that we won't be saying "third times a charm", and rewrite legislation like the farm bill so that only big farms and non farms are getting all those billions of tax dollars.

[SendARope]

IM IN!!!But I've been in since I discovered RON PAUL and the fact that he is the only candidate that understood real conservatism. But now we are stuck with McCain or Obama. What a freakin JOKE!!! BTW I will not be voting for either of those losers!

[MelodyOfVision]

I'm saving my money for my future. I like working though, so I don't see myself retiring - I'd be bored to death maxing and relaxing! I definitely want to work part-time after retirement age.

I know better not to rely on social security!

[alvincay100]

Fuck it. I don't want any social security when I'm old. Socialist Bullshit. Whatever happen to the notion of family? Children used to look after there parents when they got old.

[karen32862]

Well now we can add the Frannie Mae and Freddie Mac fiasco to that increasing debt, and we can add TRILLIONS to it.