Erskine Bowles: “The budget goes nowhere near where they will have to go to resolve our fiscal nightmare.”

It is an enormous fiscal cancer, and going forward it will only get worse.

Failure to reach our target will lock us into mandatory indiscriminate cuts and will limit our options in the future.

As a matter of good social policy, these programs deserve to be reformed.

I could support raising the eligibility age for Medicare since we have other coverage available through the Affordable Health Care Act.