"The latest Social Security trustees report tells us that the program will be insolvent by the year 2037. The combined unfunded liability of Social Security and Medicare has reached nearly $107 trillion in today’s dollars. That is about seven times the size of the U.S. economy and 10 times the size of the national debt.
Those entitlement programs, along with others, account for nearly 60 percent of federal spending. They are what Congress calls nondiscretionary spending. About half of discretionary spending is for national defense. Each year, nondiscretionary spending consumes a higher and higher percentage of the federal budget"..............LINK
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