He is, simply, scared to death of where this country is headed fiscally, and it has nothing to do with ideology, which he appears to abjure. It’s the math, stupid.

America faces unfunded Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid entitlement liabilities in the coming years amounting to eighty trillion dollars. He (rather neatly) insists on spelling that out, as “$80,000,000,000,000.00.”

This is an inexorable freight train headed at us. And, points out, Mr. Obama is not doing anything about it, for the reason that Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn’t want it on the table. In fact, few politicians want to talk about it. But it is coming at us. If nothing is done, it could be the end of the American experiment. If that sounds hysterical, look at the math yourself.