Maine Governor wants to stop EBT being used for candy/soft drinks

Google black budget.
Add 50 billion
Then add Dept. Homeland Security
Add 40 billion
NSA,CIA, add 75 billion (70% of spy agency funding goes to military contractors

this tells me nothing. It's not about dollar amounts it's about percentages
 
They should be forced to only buy cheap selected food with the EBT card. Basic foods, like rice, grains, bread, veggies, fruit. That's it. No Shrimp cocktails, no T-bone steaks, etc.

Using it to buy gummy bears and fountain drinks at the gas station is a complete disgrace. This is what empty liberalism/socialism gets you.

Then they get super fat, and diabetic, then need millions of more taxpayer dollars in medical costs. But hey Obama has you covered Yall! Keep eating that processed sugar! Just put that on the deficit, screw it! We're liberals and we are creating a permanent underclass, and a permanent unhealthy class, so you and your family will depend on the gubment for generations! Yayyyyyy!

Why do you hate capitalism. Poor health is a great profit center.
 
Ok, raising the tax cap. That's not leaving the system as it is. It was all over the news yesterday about the shortages S.S. is facing. It has nothing to do with Republicans or scare tactics. These are facts.

It may not even have to be done, your generation isn't a healthy one, you are contacting diseases earlier and your life expectancy may not be as long as the Greatest Generation or the Boomers.

Contrary to popular belief, life expectancy in retirement has been growing relatively slowly in recent years, and, like the Baby Boomer retirement, the increase was fully anticipated by the Social Security actuaries.
Because of population growth, rising life expectancy does not create a Malthusian dilemma. In fact, the ratio of beneficiaries to covered workers is projected to level off after the Baby Boomer retirement.
Similarly, Social Security outlays are projected to level off — not spiral upward like health care costs.
This isn’t to say that Social Security costs won’t increase, but this increase is manageable—on the order of 1.5% of GDP. And because Social Security is currently running a surplus, the 75-year shortfall is much smaller—around 0.7% of GDP according to the Social Security actuaries, and even less according to the Congressional Budget Office.

http://www.epi.org/publication/social_security_is_sustainable/
 
It may not even have to be done, your generation isn't a healthy one, you are contacting diseases earlier and your life expectancy may not be as long as the Greatest Generation or the Boomers.

Contrary to popular belief, life expectancy in retirement has been growing relatively slowly in recent years, and, like the Baby Boomer retirement, the increase was fully anticipated by the Social Security actuaries.
Because of population growth, rising life expectancy does not create a Malthusian dilemma. In fact, the ratio of beneficiaries to covered workers is projected to level off after the Baby Boomer retirement.
Similarly, Social Security outlays are projected to level off — not spiral upward like health care costs.
This isn’t to say that Social Security costs won’t increase, but this increase is manageable—on the order of 1.5% of GDP. And because Social Security is currently running a surplus, the 75-year shortfall is much smaller—around 0.7% of GDP according to the Social Security actuaries, and even less according to the Congressional Budget Office.

http://www.epi.org/publication/social_security_is_sustainable/


This article was written yesterday.



Social Security trust fund projected to run dry by 2034


If lawmakers don't act, Social Security's trust fund will be tapped out in about 18 years.

That's one takeaway from the Social Security and Medicare trustees' annual report released Wednesday.

That doesn't mean retirees will get nothing by 2034. It means that at that point the program will only have enough revenue coming in to pay 79% of promised benefits.

So if you're expecting to get $2,000 a month, the program will only be able to pay $1,580.

Technically, Social Security is funded by two trust funds -- one for retiree benefits and one for disability benefits.

The 2034 date is the exhaustion date for both funds when combined. But if considered separately, the old-age fund will be exhausted by 2035, after which it would be able to pay just 77% of benefits. And the disability fund will be tapped out by 2023, at which point it could only pay out 89% of promised benefits.

To make all of Social Security solvent for the next 75 years would require the equivalent of any of the following: immediately raising the Social Security payroll tax rate to 14.98% from 12.4% on the first $118,500 of wages; cutting benefits by 16%; or some combination of the two.


Medicare faces insolvency two years earlier than expected


In terms of Medicare, the trustees project that the trust fund for Part A, which covers hospital costs for seniors, will run dry by 2028. That's two years earlier than they projected last year, due to lower than expected payroll taxes and a slower-than-estimated rate of reduction in inpatient use of hospital services.

But the exhaustion date is still 11 years later than had been projected before Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, now known as Obamacare.

By 2028, Medicare Part A would only be able to pay out 87% of expected benefits -- a figure that would fall to 79% by 2043 before gradually increasing to 86% by 2090.

Medicare Part B, meanwhile, which helps seniors pay for doctor's bills and outpatient expenses, is funded by a combination of premium payments and money from general federal revenue. The same is true of Part D, which offers prescription drug coverage. Both will be financed in full indefinitely, but only because the law requires automatic financing of it.

But their costs are growing quickly. The trustees estimate that the costs will grow to 3.5% of GDP by 2037 then to 3.8% by 2090, up from 2.1% last year.

"Social Security and Medicare remain secure in the medium-term," said Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew. "But reform will be needed, and Congress should not wait until the eleventh hour to address the fiscal challenges given that they represent the cornerstone of economic security for seniors in our country."


http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/22/pf/social-security-medicare/
 
Let's see if I have this straight. You make a claim that something called the black budget shows defense spending is 55% of the budget yet say the numbers are a secret. Two questions: 1) if the numbers are secret, how do you know how much it is and 2) if you claim to know the percentage, surely you can provide a verifiable source to back it up.

sshhh.....its $60t and its in an account with my name on it.....I'm not sharing any of it with Rune.......
 
It may not even have to be done, your generation isn't a healthy one, you are contacting diseases earlier and your life expectancy may not be as long as the Greatest Generation or the Boomers.

Contrary to popular belief, life expectancy in retirement has been growing relatively slowly in recent years, and, like the Baby Boomer retirement, the increase was fully anticipated by the Social Security actuaries.
Because of population growth, rising life expectancy does not create a Malthusian dilemma. In fact, the ratio of beneficiaries to covered workers is projected to level off after the Baby Boomer retirement.
Similarly, Social Security outlays are projected to level off — not spiral upward like health care costs.
This isn’t to say that Social Security costs won’t increase, but this increase is manageable—on the order of 1.5% of GDP. And because Social Security is currently running a surplus, the 75-year shortfall is much smaller—around 0.7% of GDP according to the Social Security actuaries, and even less according to the Congressional Budget Office.

http://www.epi.org/publication/social_security_is_sustainable/

Where is the 55% figure you claimed?
 
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