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<title>Like Lemmings Off a Cliff... (Trees And Things)</title>
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<description>&lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080325/ap_on_bi_ge/social_security">A new report by the trustees for Medicare and Social Security&lt;/a> suggests that current spending rates will drive the two large entitlement programs to insolvency within the next few decades.  Medicare is expected to go bust first - by 2019 - but Social Security will follow soon after and run out of funds sometime around 2041.</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:59:31 EST</pubDate>

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