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How do you get ahead in How do you get ahead in business?business?

Answer: Increase Answer: Increase ProfitsProfits

How do you get ahead in How do you get ahead in government?government?

Answer: Expand the Answer: Expand the BureaucracyBureaucracy

Which Federal Agency Which Federal Agency Expends the Most Expends the Most

Resources?Resources?Social Security: Social Security:

(Department of Health and (Department of Health and Human Resources)Human Resources)Medicare (elderly)Medicare (elderly)Medicaid (poor)Medicaid (poor)Retirement BenefitsRetirement Benefits

Basic Facts About Social Basic Facts About Social SecuritySecurity

Social Security protects more Social Security protects more than 150 million workers and than 150 million workers and pays benefits to more than 45 pays benefits to more than 45 million people.million people.

Basic Facts About Social Basic Facts About Social SecuritySecurity

Basic Facts About Social Basic Facts About Social SecuritySecurity

Younger Americans face Younger Americans face roughly a 1-in-5 chance of roughly a 1-in-5 chance of dying before reaching dying before reaching retirement age.retirement age.

Basic Facts About Social Basic Facts About Social SecuritySecurity

Fact or Fiction?Fact or Fiction?

The government's own actuaries predict the system will be bankrupt by 2030, but Social Security could face financial crisis as early as 2014.

source: The Construction Party 2004

For more information on the fate of Social Security

go tohttp://www.ncpa.org/avo/

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