Adjusted for inflation, the federal government spent more on Medicare and Medicaid in 2011 than it spent on everything in 1960. - David Meyer Wessel

The fiscal path we are on today is simply not sustainable. These deficits that we are incurring on an annual basis are like a cancer, and they are truly going to destroy this country from within unless we have the common sense to do something about it.
"We face the most predictable economic crisis in history."

"Tax reform"—the always popular, always politically treacherous goal of making the tax code simpler and smarter—"is really difficult when you can't throw money at it. Losers always squeak louder than winners cheer.

Everyone thinks there's a lot, but there's nothing that a majority wants to cut. The average person doesn't want less government. They just want the government to cost less.