{"id":186,"date":"2010-11-01T13:46:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T20:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=186"},"modified":"2010-11-01T13:46:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T20:46:55","slug":"the-most-important-social-security-graph-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"The most important Social Security graph ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2010\/10\/most-important-social-security-chart\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Drum<\/a>, this chart is from the trustee&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialsecurity.gov\/OACT\/TR\/2010\/tr2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Ezra Klein has a posting about it <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2010\/11\/the_social_security_shortfall.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog_social_security_basic_chart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-187\" title=\"blog_social_security_basic_chart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog_social_security_basic_chart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog_social_security_basic_chart.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog_social_security_basic_chart-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reason that this chart is so important is that it shows that SS costs don&#8217;t continue to rise forever, they increase from about 4.8% of GDP (where they are now) and level off at about 6% of GDP.\u00c2\u00a0 We can fix that with relatively small adjustments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Kevin Drum, this chart is from the trustee&#8217;s report.\u00c2\u00a0 Ezra Klein has a posting about it here. The reason that this chart is so important is that it shows that SS costs don&#8217;t continue to rise forever, they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=186\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}