‘Unconscionable Debt’ In Social Security, Medicare
April 21, 2007, 3:40pm
Alison Fraser, a federal spending analyst at the Heritage Foundation, discusses the status of Social Security and Medicare in advance of the trustees for the two programs releasing annual reports on Monday. The bottom line, Fraser said, is that the programs are creating “an unconscionable debt” for future generations of America.
Earlier this week, Heritage produced a video contrasted spending on national defense with spending on “the big three entitlements” — Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
“In order to win the war on terrorism,” national security analyst Mackenzie Eaglen said, “we must commit now to spending 4 percent of our gross domestic product on national security while simultaneously recognizing that entitlement reform has become a national security issue.”
Categories: Military, Health, Budget, Social Policy
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July 15th, 2008 at 12:28 am
[…] Alison Fraser, a federal spending analyst at the Heritage Foundation, discusses the status of Social Security and Medicare in advance of the trustees for the two programs releasing annual reports on Monday. The bottom line, Fraser said, is that the programs are creating an unconscionable debt for future generations of America. […]