'Generations Together' released their latest Reality Check on the cost of doing nothing with Social Security Reform.
'With the cost of inaction set at $600 billion a year [2004 OASDI Trustees Report], that wasted money could be spent on better things.
It could:
- Pay for No Child Left Behind in 34 days.
- Fund the Medicare program in 207 days.
- Fund the Pell Grant Program in 9 days.
- Fund Troops to Teachers in 10 minutes.
- Pay for "Cover the Kids" health care program in less than 1 day.
- Pay for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program in 30 days.
- Fund Safe and Drug Free schools state grants in 5 hours.
- Fully fund the State Children's Health Insurance Program in 24 days.
- Pay for the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in 9 days.'
For all the Reality Checks, click the following link:
www.generationstogether.net
