I’m just going to leave that here for you to contemplate. He’s lying. We are not looking at insolvency. The shortfall we are facing is largely because of the big bulge of the baby boom coming on line. It is easily fixed if they will just do what’s necessary to lift the cap.
Mike Pence will never be president. But he is speaking for Republicans, even if they’ve been admonished not to say it out loud as long as Dear Leader is still in charge. They will never stop believing that those programs must be destroyed. It’s fundamental Republican ideology.