[Bruce Campbells Chin]

What is needed is sending entitlement programs to the states, which are bound by real-world budgetary requirements. Right now, it is the ability of the federal government to pawn off the spiraling costs of entitlements on future generations that are driving up the federal deficit.

[I am Richard Brandon]

"the states, which are bound by real-world budgetary requirements."

If only that were true. Ever heard of 'unfunded liabilities'? Screw it up now and retire before the reckoning - that's the politicians' motto.