[Sabertooth]

What do you think will square the fiscal circle on this? I think I know the answer. What is it?

Showdowns on privatization and increased immigration, plus Amnesty.

Anything not privatized would be financed by newcomers, as would be anything privatized. That's the theory, anyway.

The price tag of Bush Prescription Drug entitlement will likely break $1 trillion over the first ten years, and many trillions more after that. The appetite for the new freebie will not abate, and the ability to pay for it through immigration growth will fall short of expectations.

[goldstategop]

I hear ya. How many wealthy and middle class illegal aliens can we absorb? If we could find them, it wouldn't be so controversial. But you and I know there's no chance any of those arriving will be making enough to pay for that entitlement bill due in a decade's time. By then President Bush will be long gone and it'll be another President's headache to deal with.