Bankrupt: Entitlements and the Federal Budget

The Fog of Numbers

- Alan Caruba
Monday, April 4, 2011

There are several reasons why Rep. Paul Ryan and his fellow Republicans in Congress want to cut four trillion dollars from the 2012 budget.

* The 1994-1996 Social Security Advisory Council
* The 1995 Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform.
* The 1999 National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare
* The December 2010 bipartisan Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.

Most of us have heard of “the fog of warâ€