[wolfcola]

Except you blamed “entitlement spending” for the deficit, which the comment above clearly disproves.

[biophysboy]

I “blame” it only in the sense that it’s part of the negative cash flow, even if it has its own dedicated pool of cash. I don’t use the term “entitlement” pejoratively.

But I am not a “panic about the deficit” guy. There’s a lot of trivial things we could do: rethink fee for service, negotiate more w/ providers, raise taxes, etc