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Like Lemmings Off a Cliff...

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Posted to Politics on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 02:59:31 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

A new report by the trustees for Medicare and Social Security 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.

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