about military spending, and those who have said maybe the military is too big, politically they don't want to be vulnerable to the charge that they are anti-military. so the political system has allowed these weapon systems that we don't necessarily need that are often way over budget to be getting built without much restraint. and their personnel costs are soaring at the same time. >> yeah, anything that could ever be seen to be weakening america is definitely something that carries with it a lot of political risk. something else that's been called the third rail of american politics on more than one occasion, particularly during election years, social security. let's put up the graphics on this. the budget for social security -- we've got the wrong graphic up here. if we could put the correct graphic up, it says $703 billion in 2015, then we can put up the other one, it goes negative, 2037, we're going to need to cut benefits 22% in order to stay solvent. couple of proposals out there that have been put forward to try to bring social security under control.