Ed Morrissey

Neither party will do anything about it, either. They have both made it a toxic topic, with shrieking hysteria about grandmas getting pushed off cliffs. The fact is that we have overpromised and vastly underfunded both programs. The unfunded liabilities for both, especially Medicare, are gargantuan and growing.

The only way to save these programs is to get realistic about life spans and benefit payments, plus restructure them for more rational benefits. Even with national debt reaching crisis levels, though, there simply is no political will in DC for approaching this with even a lick of honesty or common sense.