Now, If I Were In Congress.

Well today's big news is that the Social Security trust fund will run out of funds in 2033. Much sooner than previous estimates. Two big reasons are all the baby boomers set to retire and the slow economy. Now the baby boomer thing is not new information and the economy thing is easy enough to understand. The real question is why hasn't congress addressed the problem? Well if you ask almost any Republican, they'll tell you the Democrats in the Senate refuse to do anything about it. If you ask almost any Democrat, the Republicans in the House are only interested in eliminating it. The truth? Neither party in Congress has the will to fix the problem, especially in an election year. Of course it's election year, or at least campaign year, every year. And this is a presidential election year, which makes it even bigger. But how in the world could they fix such a major problem as this? Joe Scarborough of Morning Jo on MS NBC says he could fix it in 20 minutes or less. And he was a congressman. Which is odd, because the biggest problem with Social Security is congress. Well actually it's not so much congress as it is the legislators themselves. See, if they didn't have to belong to a political party and if they didn't care so much about keeping their jobs, it could be done in maybe a couple of days. I doubt the twenty minute thing. Isn't it always the way? Somebody who once served in congress thinks they have all the answers and the members of the "other" party are the ones causing all the trouble. But if they have all the answers, why didn't they fix it when they were in congress? The answer, they would claim, is the other party. The other party's members wouldn't allow them to fix the problem. The funny thing is, pretty much everybody knows the solution and pretty much agrees with the solution. Maybe a little tweaking, but no big deal. No big deal unless you're actually in congress. Then the party lines are drawn. And nobody is drawing any conclusions. Or solutions either. It's a lot like one of those doomsday movies. The world is set to self destruct in twenty minutes. But, hey, we still have time for nineteen minutes and fifty nine seconds of drama.