{"id":188732,"date":"2010-08-05T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/05\/no-big-surprise\/"},"modified":"2010-08-05T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T02:53:00","slug":"no-big-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/05\/no-big-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"No Big Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Annual Report of the Board Of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance And Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds is out and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/08\/05\/medicare-gets-new-lease-o_n_671936.html\">Social Security is just fine, and <span>healthcare<\/span> reform has improved Medicare&#8217;s financial picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a surprise.  If you follow this at all, and possess the math skills required to engage in basic counting, and are not <span>demagoguing<\/span> this for political advantage, then you already know this.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the conditions that I have stated rule out 95% of the reporters, 99% of the pundits, and 101% of the Republicans out there, (someone must be hitting the button twice) so we still get the &#8220;youngsters will never see social security&#8221; <span>bullsh<\/span>%$.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Annual Report of the Board Of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance And Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds is out and Social Security is just fine, and healthcare reform has improved Medicare&#8217;s financial picture. This is not a surprise. If you follow this at all, and possess the math skills required to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1009,992],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-government","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}