If inflation were higher, Social Security and entitlement payments would be higher and the budget deficit mess would be even worse.
The age level entitlement for Social Security needs to be raised a couple of years.
Once that happens, social security will become another unfunded entitlement that we cannot afford.
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Entitlement and Social Security payments, which account for a substantial portion of the federal budget, are indexed to CPI.
Social Security is one of our entitlement programs that for now is stable, but will not be if we don't make some changes.
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It is the very same problem we face now with Social Security and the other major retirement entitlement programs.
The independence offered by financial security may foster a sense of entitlement and a lack of concern for others, the authors suggest.
Every Member in this chamber knows that spending on entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid is growing faster than we can afford.
And both sides may embrace a suggestion now endorsed by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to recalculate automatic cost-of-living increases for entitlement programs like Social Security, which many experts think are too high.
The real US deficit problem lies five or more years in the future, when expanding entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare and flat taxes will create a widening gap between Federal revenues and Federal spending.
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Just as the cable television newsmen were bemoaning the unwillingness of the Republicans to compromise, Boehner came forward to suggest strongly that the Grand Bargain was a very real possibility since his Republicans in Congress would now be willing to accept some tax increases to produce revenues to balance off the reductions in spending on entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.
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Of course, the big picture comprises the entire scope of entitlement programs, including Social Security and Medicare.
Just as important, a larger economy would provide additional resources and flexibility essential to the reform of entitlement programs, including Social Security and Medicare.
Toward the end of the next decade, deficits stemming largely from entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare will begin to rise indefinitely.
When we think of our entitlement programs, like Social Security and Medicare, the metaphor is how many people we have pulling the wagon versus how many are riding in the wagon.
Now, legislators risk looking politically cynical by seeking to weaken the measures enacted to try to force them to confront tough questions regarding deficit reduction, such as reforms to popular entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
According to a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, just 3 percent of the long-run fiscal problem is due to the ARRA. The rest of this yawning gap is due to projected rises in spending on entitlement programs, primarily Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
The most daring strategy would be for Mr Bush to lay out an ambitious policy for the second term centred on a fundamental reform of America's entitlement programmes (principally Social Security and Medicare, the federally funded systems that provide, respectively, pensions and health care for the elderly) or basic changes to the tax system.
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Against that backdrop, White House officials and some Republicans are arguing that the best way out of the impasse is to resume the search for a comprehensive deficit-cutting deal that gets to the core of the long-term problem through a rewrite of tax policy and a revamp of entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
Only a third of all Americans receiving government entitlement transfers are seniors on Social Security and Medicare.
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Democrats refused to cut entitlement programs, such as Social Security and Medicare.
More than half, or 58 percent, said the cuts should be focused on entitlement programs, such as Social Security and Medicare.
The truth is that America needs to reform its two big entitlement programmes, Medicare and Social Security, as much as it ever did.
Taxpayers deemed to be good in the eyes of our government overseers are not given a pass on these entitlement-plan taxes: Social Security and Medicare taxes apply across the board.
House Speak John Boehner this morning said he will develop a Plan B, which will include tax hikes on million-dollar earners but will not cut entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Among them: freeze entitlement programs and raise the Social Security retirement age to 70, tackle health care in a "serious way" and limit government spending to below 1% of nominal gross domestic product while setting up a modern Works Progress Administration to build infrastructure.
At stake are the power of public-sector unions and the future of entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security.
Obama says he'll have more to say on how his administration will address ballooning entitlement costs on health care and Social Security closer to that date.
Defenders of the status quo argue that it is impractical to limit the growth of spending because of entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security, for which spending is steadily rising due to the increase in the elderly population.
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These are analogous to those federal entitlement programs we keep hearing about: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
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