http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...031004683.html
Everyone knows that the U.S. budget is being devoured by entitlements. Everyone also knows that of the Big Three - Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security - Social Security is the most solvable.
Back-of-an-envelope solvable: Raise the retirement age, tweak the indexing formula (from wage inflation to price inflation) and means-test so that Warren Buffett's check gets redirected to a senior in need.
The relative ease of the fix is what makes the Obama administration's Social Security strategy so shocking.
The new line from the White House is: no need to fix it because there is no problem. As Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew wrote in USA Today just a few weeks ago, the trust fund is solvent until 2037. Therefore, Social Security is now off the table in debt-reduction talks.
well, now isn't that awesome. politics as usual. obama doesn't want him or his party to be the 'bad guy' and make changes some won't find palatable...a hot button issue, so let's avoid it altogether. ignore it, it won't go away. but let's just stick our heads in the sand, and let someone worry about it down the road. keep hearing how it's such an
easy fix, but....if it's so effing easy, why isn't it being done?