He certainly did! (60-39)

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This vote is but an initial formality, anyway. More importantly, the _real_ bill will be made in conference.

There's plenty of time for the GOP to start behaving intelligently, even if they'll remain sidelined, mainly.

A few of us even noticed what was done instead, such as to remove a years-long warning about the future growth in entitlement expenditures and growth of the federal government to a massive fraction of the future GDP. I suppose “reform” in the form of removing the following warning to the public by the Obama administration this year from the Trustees' Reports, is based on the presumption that those who are so easily exploited will remain blissfully carefree and ignorant, and resentful toward those who know better.

“It is noteworthy that over the past four decades, the average amount of total Federal revenues as a percentage of GDP has also been 18 percent, and has never exceeded 21 percent in a given year. Assuming the continued need to fund a wide range of other government functions, the projected growth in Social Security and Medicare costs would require that the total Federal revenue share of GDP increase to wholly unprecedented levels.”

(Shhh.)

From one of your excerpts:

The retirement system (Social Security) and health insurance for the elderly (Medicare) are headed for bankruptcy, with state and local pension funds and the federal pension insurance fund not far behind.

Gee, the government is doing such a great job with all of this…how about we let them do some more? Sooner or later, they're bound to get something right. If they don't, then it will just be a failed $1T experiment.