Chaod, Newly, the US now has no choice in the matter, these programs will have to be cut back, and the cuts have to be massive. The senior population is not going to like the bitter medicine they are about to be forced-fed. AARP is going to go into convulsions before this is over.
This is but the first round of corrective action that America will be required to take. I am afraid the negative economic forces that are now starting to work upon us are, as we will all soon begin to better understand, the results of trying to borrow our way into productivity.
Unless and until we re-engineer critical sectors of U.S. society, many millions of children will suffer needlessly--from my general and political commentary blog: www.thinkwecan.com