{"id":5068,"date":"2023-03-16T12:11:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T16:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=5068"},"modified":"2023-03-16T12:11:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T16:11:56","slug":"put-the-people-back-in-the-peoples-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/put-the-people-back-in-the-peoples-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Put the people back in the People\u2019s House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Real-Clear-Politics.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"495\" height=\"108\" data-attachment-id=\"4689\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/our-government-is-showing-its-age\/real-clear-politics\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Real-Clear-Politics.png\" data-orig-size=\"495,108\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Real-Clear-Politics\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Real-Clear-Politics-300x65.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Real-Clear-Politics.png\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Real-Clear-Politics.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Real-Clear-Politics.png 495w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Real-Clear-Politics-300x65.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Social Security Administration\u2019s latest report confirms that retirement benefits will have to be cut in 12 years. Far more money is going out of Social Security than is coming in. Over the next three decades, benefits will outstrip revenues by $21 trillion. Congress needs to do something or retirees will face a 23% cut in benefits in 2035.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, in Washington, D.C., the byword is \u201cMan the barricades!\u201d We mostly hear noise. Interest groups, advocates, and politicians are yelling talking points past one another: \u201cHands off Social Security,\u201d \u201cNo new taxes,\u201d and the like. Magical thinking abounds. Both parties disavow the idea of extending the life of the trust fund by reducing benefits by a little bit&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2023\/03\/16\/put_the_people_back_in_the_peoples_house_148988.html\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Security Administration\u2019s latest report confirms that retirement benefits will have to be cut in 12 years. Far more money is going out of Social Security than is coming in. Over the next three decades, benefits will outstrip revenues by $21 trillion. Congress needs to do something or retirees will face a 23% cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[160],"tags":[230],"class_list":["post-5068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-real-clear-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1jK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}