Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
There's a decent breakdown on page 5 of the PDF report. Having a hard time grabbing a screenie, sorry. What's interesting is that Social Security only rises slightly, while Medicaid and Mecidare rise rapidly. The big killer, if you believe these numbers, is Net Interest.
Yup, Medicare/Medicaid is the big budget killer, Social Security is next. And we have yet to have any politician talk seriously about fixing either. Forget about pork barrel spending- yeah, it's offensive but it's completely insignificant compared to the big entitlements.

As an aside, which party is it that "trades on fear" every time the topic of Social Security reform is brought up?