{"id":20005,"date":"2011-05-16T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20005"},"modified":"2011-05-14T07:20:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T13:20:18","slug":"just-keep-repeating-it-to-yourself-progressives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20005","title":{"rendered":"Just Keep Repeating It To Yourself, &#8220;Progressives&#8221;:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Ryan Plan is scary!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-05-13\/medicare-social-security-funds-expiring-sooner-u-s-says.html\">The Ryan Plan is scary<\/a>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While Medicare won\u2019t have sufficient funds to pay full benefits starting in 2024, five years earlier than last year\u2019s estimate, Social Security\u2019s cash to pay full benefits runs short in 2036, a year sooner than the 2010 projection, the U.S. government said today in an annual report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The Ryan Plan is scary!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Both forecasts were affected by a slower-than-anticipated economic recovery, the government said. The estimates for funding add urgency to talks between Democrats and Republicans on ways to cut spending to reduce the U.S. budget deficit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The Ryan Plan is soooooooooooo scary!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cProjected long-run program costs for both Medicare and Social Security are not sustainable under currently scheduled financing, and will require legislative corrections if disruptive consequences for beneficiaries and taxpayers are to be avoided,\u201d according to the report summary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s keep doing what we&#8217;re doing. \u00a0Because whomever is in office in ten years will need some challenges, right?<em> <\/em>Because the Ryan Plan is scary!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Ryan Plan is scary!\u00a0The Ryan Plan is scary!&#8221; While Medicare won\u2019t have sufficient funds to pay full benefits starting in 2024, five years earlier than last year\u2019s estimate, Social Security\u2019s cash to pay full benefits runs short in 2036, a year sooner than the 2010 projection, the U.S. government said today in an annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20007,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20005\/revisions\/20007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}