Estimated Future Costs of “Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid

It’s being estimated that by 2050, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, as they are now constituted, will take up nearly the entire federal budget. By about 2080, Medicare alone will comprise the entire federal budget.

This projection is obviously impossible to sustain. There will have to be patching done by our politicos along the way. But it does point up the path of stupidity those politicos in office today have set forth for us, our children and grandchildren.

Congress is creating a bankrupt system.for us and our descendants. Solutions can only involve less services, benefits, rationing and higher taxes, as well as inflation we have never experienced before.

Yet, Americans consider this treatment “business as usual.”