Dusty Johnson: “Social Security and Medicare go insolvent in eight years.”

“But it is so hard to even get a reasonable conversation across the political spectrum, to just even get people to acknowledge that Social Security and Medicare go insolvent in eight years. In eight years they go insolvent. And when that happens on Social Security, automatically, without any congressional action, Grandma and grandpa's check gets cut by 24% automatically.” (16:07–16:12)

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