House Speaker John Boehner's suggested
solution to the current "Fiscal Cliff" controversy is to make deep cuts in
those nasty old "Entitlements." It
is also suggested that Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security cost $2.05 trillion
in fiscal 2012 which represented 58 percent of the federal budget. Apparently the leader of The House of
Representatives would like us to believe Medicare and Social Security
contributes nothing toward the federal budget and Medicaid is covered under the
entitlement program - it is not.
So what are the real facts?
Continue reading Entitlements - on trial again..