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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Reducing Deficits Requires Cutting Entitlements

See Philip Klein' piece in The American Spectator which points out that getting the deficit under control requires cutting the big 3 entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid) that compose almost all of the mandatory spending that is 59% of our budget. There's this nice graph there:

Posted by tbierly at 5:56 PM

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