{"id":12095,"date":"2009-04-04T23:45:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T23:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tom_blumer_social_security_crisis_to_arrive_six_years_early\/"},"modified":"2009-04-04T23:45:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T23:45:08","slug":"tom_blumer_social_security_crisis_to_arrive_six_years_early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12095","title":{"rendered":"Tom Blumer: Social Security Crisis to Arrive Six Years Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, I wrote:<\/p>\n<p>Think Social Security will be solvent until 2041? Think again. The next president will face rapidly growing problems by the end of his or her first term.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the concern was that the substantial Social Security surpluses we have experienced during the past 22 years would begin to shrink.<\/p>\n<p>An updated version of a Congressional Budget Office chart I presented last year shows that the shrink has indeed begun&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/social-security-crisis-to-arrive-six-years-early\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, I wrote: Think Social Security will be solvent until 2041? Think again. The next president will face rapidly growing problems by the end of his or her first term. At the time, the concern was that the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12095\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,670,149,151,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-economy","category-politics-in-general","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}