Unfortunately for many of us, the habits that lead to these cognitive and social deficits are extremely hard to give up.
But in September, two independent groups reported that the same strain of mice, bred from animals furnished by the Brose lab, do not show any social deficits.
Other social deficits that could signal a problem include the inabilities to focus attention on what other people are noticing or to imagine what another person is thinking.
He contemplates Medicare and Social Security deficits and offers 70% as a plausible guess.
The Chief Actuary of Social Security has scored several personal account bills as eliminating all future Social Security deficits entirely through such personal accounts alone.
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Hence, virtually all benefits can be paid out of revenues without having to borrow more money from the public, and the relatively small Social Security deficits expected during the coming decade (3% of payroll tax revenues) can and should be covered by earmarking enough general revenues to redeem the Trust Fund IOUs Congress left behind when it looted Social Security during the past 25 years.
He and his colleagues evaluated 100 girls between the ages of 3 and 18 who had social or attention deficits.
Deficits, Social Security and Medicare are now carrying over to the second-term agenda.
The Chief Actuary scores the bill as eliminating all future deficits of Social Security, with no benefit cuts or tax increases, assuring that all Social Security benefits will be paid.
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That is because the personal accounts finance so much of the future benefits of Social Security that future deficits between continuing payroll tax revenues and continuing benefit obligations of the program are eliminated entirely.
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But of the biggest contributors to America's long-term deficits, Mr Obama leaves Social Security (pensions) untouched and merely trims Medicare and Medicaid, which provide health care to the elderly and poor respectively.
Other prominent observers, such as social critic Stanley Crouch, claim that the deficits of hip hop blare beyond the borders of ugly art to inspire youth to even uglier behavior.
I've said before, Social Security is not the primary cause of our deficits, but it does face long-term challenges as our country grows older.
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Toward the end of the next decade, deficits stemming largely from entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare will begin to rise indefinitely.
But I will say one thing that I think is important on Social Security, which is, this is not about short-term deficits.
We have trillion dollar federal budget deficits, state and municipal governments reeling from budget woes, and Social Security and Medicare programs approaching insolvency.
Debt and deficits have to be reduced, but cuts to budgets and to social programmes are feeding into an unpredictable resentment in Europe.
When you talk about the broader -- it is true that, as I think our budget director has said, that Social Security is not the problem when it comes to our near-term deficits, our annual deficits.
Considering the current budget deficits and the coming bulge of retirees who will run up Medicare and Social Security costs, it seems likely taxes will climb.
To achieve this, he agreed to raise the rate of the (relatively efficient) Social Security payroll tax, thereby helping to protect that flawed system from suffering operating deficits for more than 25 years.
The Associated Press-LifeGoesStrong.com poll comes as politicians face growing pressure to curb record federal deficits, and budget hawks of both parties have expressed a willingness to scale back Social Security, the government's biggest program.
The coming tsunami of deficits and debt instead will result from a sharp increase in spending on entitlements: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
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And the reason, when we talk about Social Security, even though it is not a driver, it is not the problem when we talk about our deficits, it does have long-term solvency issues that can be -- that can be addressed and we can strengthen the program.
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