Monday - May 23, 2005
The Social Security Problem For Dummies
See the little picture below. It looks like one of your favorite video game characters, doesn’t it? Well, it is. This is Pac-Man, who flits around your video screen chewing up dots and running away from ghosts.
Imagine for a minute that Pac-Man actually represents the amount government spends on non-discretionary spending (items like social security, medicaid, medicare). This spending takes up 65% of the entire federal budget, kinda like Pac-Man’s ugly little head - see how his round little head is almost a full circle except for his chomping little mouth? That head without the mouth represents 65% of a circle. That is money that has to be spent every year on the sick and elderly.
Also, Imagine the two little dots that Pac-Man is about to gobble up represent spending on (1) military, national defense, and national security and (2) social programs like welfare, housing, highways, the environment and education. Pac-Man is about to chomp down on them both because he has been eating too many power pills in recent years and has grown bigger and bigger and bigger while the little dots have had to grow smaller and smaller and smaller. Pac-Man is getting bigger because health care costs are going up and up and more and more people will be getting old and retiring soon.
Now, we have two options: (1) we can throw more yellow stuff (money) on this video game to make the little dots bigger but Pac-Man will still keep growing or (2) we can figure out a way to get Pac-Man under control by moving some of his hunger over to Ms Pac-Man, also known as Ms. PSA (Personal Savings Accounts).
Oh, and the ghosts ....? Well, they’re Republicans and Democrats in Congress scampering all over the screen, blindly trying to find Pac-Man and bumping into each other in a bizaare chase reminiscent of the Keystone Cops. The ghosts never seem to catch Pac-Man, do they?
Maybe you better help the ghosts a little. Got your joystick handy? If so, you better ram it up your Congress Critter’s “you-know-what” real soon or else ....
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Posted by The Skipper
on 05/23/2005 at 10:42 AM
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