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This article arrived in my in box this morning. Could this be part of the reason why there has been a huge uptick in “boomer bashing” on social media? Framing the elderly as evil and greedy makes it easier to take from them, doesn’t it?

Apparently, the Problem Is Grandma

Dr. Robert W. Malone

The Washington Post editorial board has apparently recently discovered that Social Security and Medicare are in trouble, and they are shocked, shocked, I tell you!

That part is true, and there is no reason to pretend otherwise. This is a fact that anyone not living under a rock has known for a very long time. According to the 2026 Social Security Trustees Report, the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund is projected to exhaust its reserves in late 2032. At that point, incoming revenue would cover only about 78 percent of scheduled benefits. Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund is projected to exhaust its reserves in 2033. These are serious problems that have been developing for decades, and Congress has known about them for decades. As have the we the American people.

But in a remarkably biased editorial titled “To get the national debt under control, start with the retirement state,” the entire Washington Post editorial board manages to take a story about decades of federal fiscal irresponsibility, demographic change and the extraordinary cost of American medicine and turn it into a story about seniors having too much money.

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