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3. Medicare is already being gutted by Obama care. Obama care is what needs to be on the table. It is hurting job creation as well, which has a trickle down effect on everything else.
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Here's a high level overview of US federal government spending and revenues:
Social Security budget: $701B
Medicare/Medicaid budget: $793B
Defense budget: $689B
Interest on debt: $197B
Everything Else budget: $1076B (includes Obamacare and literally every other US federal government department aside from Defense)
Total income: $2162B
Simple math shows that if they were to literally shut down the US government except for Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, and the Defense Department,
they would STILL be $21B in the red and have a completely non-functional government. Obamacare is not the problem.