WRONG - the debt didn’t double - it went up 70%. http://www.thomhartmann.com/users/nealedwards/blog/2015/11/bring-when-conservative-mentions-obamas-doubled-national-debt The debt didn’t go up due to these programs alone - most of it was because he acknowledged the cost of the Middle East wars into the budget.

No actually, they don’t. Taxes need to get raised on people making more than $250,000 a year (I am one of them) and the cap on salaries for social security should be raised with no limit IMHO, but at least to $500k. Its a joke. We can certainly afford it and it would make these programs solvent for decades longer.