December 2012 Archives

Entitlements - on trial again.

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?

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