Harry Reid: “The baby boom generation is upon us. Our senior population will nearly double from 44 million to 77 million in just 6…”

“The baby boom generation is upon us. Our senior population will nearly double from 44 million to 77 million in just 6 years. I am just stunned by--I believe in intellectual consistency, and I try to be consistent on what I do in my legislative voting on the Senate floor. What has happened to our friends on the other side of the aisle who cared so much about deficits and balancing the budget, who offered a constitutional amendment on the Senate floor to balance the budget? Of course, they wanted to use Social Security surpluses, but still they were concerned about balancing the budget. The American people are sick and tired of excuses for inaction to balance the budget. The public wants us to stay the course towards a balanced budget, and we take that obligation quite seriously. Take it quite seriously, when we are going to be asked to increase the national debt in a few days by a trillion dollars--by a trillion dollars; not a billion, not a million but a trillion? Where are all of these statements? What happened to them? What happened to the consistency?”