Taxpayers' bill leaps by trillions

Taxpayers' bill leaps by trillions

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The federal government's long-term financial obligations grew by $2.5 trillion last year, a reflection of the mushrooming cost of Medicare and Social Security benefits as more baby boomers reach retirement.

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It would be nice if we can get away from Obama and his pastor or McCain and how old he is and start addressing some important issues like this one, but of course that would be to much to ask to our media or the politicians themselves.

It loks to me that they are betting on our children and grandchildren to figure out a way to come up with this money, which makes me think that we are to dumb right now the figure out a response ourselves.

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