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let s talk about what this means with our senior political analyst david engineerigergen. the democrats are in charge of congress, the president of the united states, getting disturbing numbers once again on social security. get these every few years and people sort of kick this can down the road. that s not too smart, is it? no, wolf, because our debts are piling up, and the government is more and more in debt, and it s it s going to seriously threaten the future of the country unless we deal with it. what s happened, wolf, here on social security and medicare, two reports that have come out, that appear to say to the public, look, the solvency of these programs is in good shape for many years to come, 20 years in the case of social security and 30 years in medicare, 20, 30 years for the two of them, and the deficit hawks, and i must tell you i m one, believe that, look, they are solvent but the only way they are solvent is doing what we re doing this year