the President's budget takes only baby steps towards reforming our unsustainable entitlement programs.
Now is the time to do it, not 4 years from now.
Claiming that this budget is an act of courage on entitlements is exactly that: it is just a claim. It is not reality.
I think Republicans have had a tough job from time to time too.
I am very concerned about the continued tendency we have of just kicking the can down the road and not really facing these problems like we ...
the President's budget never balances: not this fiscal year, not in 10 years, not ever.
Like I say, there is no way of balancing the budget ever under the President's program.
despite many claims to the contrary, this budget contains no substantive changes to Social Security.
The budget proposes to curtail spending on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid by only $413 billion over 10 years.
I hear every day that the Social Security disability program is going to be bankrupt in 2016.
the Gross National Debt would be $25.4 trillion in 2023, or 96 percent of our GDP at that time.