look, most people think of government spending as think of discretionary spending. what you see the government spend every day like the hurricane aid and things like that. that s not the problem. the problem is the entitlement spending. social security, obamacare medicaid medicare. that s 50% of our tax dollars go to those and the problem is they re on auto pilot. they just keep growing bigger and bigger. nobody wants to touch them in 10 years it s going to be 83% of our budget. that and interest payments on the debt. we won t be forget about national defense. that argument we won t be able to afford it. we won t be able to afford when people have tornadoes and floods and hurricanes sending them dollars because we ll be out of money. this is the problem this is what brought down greece and everyone laughed oh, we re not greece, you know we can afford these things. we can t and i ll tell you what the time, the clock is ticking and we probably have about five to 10 years to address the p
that would cover three or four harveys maybe and nobody does anything about it. the words debt ceiling roll off the tongue too easy and they actually take victory laps when the debt ceiling goes higher. they should be taking victory laps when it goes lower and there s a bottom line here. if we do not change the trajectory all heck is going to break loose in the markets one day. the last year of clinton we spent 1.8 trillion this year 4.1 trillion and in four years it s going to 5.1 trillion. every one of those dimes comes out of the economy s pocket and we will never ever reach our economic potential if this continues going skyward. dagen: and we re not hearing anything about this jess from the democrats your bro bernie sanders is talking about single payer for all while medicare which is single payer is going broke in 12 years. well bernie is not my bro. hillary is my gal though. no i think everyone here was disgusted before i was a support
er of the simpson plan. i think we need to reign in entitlement spending but i would public back and people are saying this is just democrats because president trump campaign ed on not cutting entitlements. he said to all his voters especially lower class said you paid into the system your whole life and you re going to be entitled and you ll get to keep it. now i m not thrilled with the medicare for all push because i think it s unrealistic. i don t think it s smart politic s looking at what s happened to us in 2016 when we fractured and fell apart losing by less than 80,000 votes. it s an important conversation to have about whether healthcare is a right and how much it should cost. it s too expensive, but this is not just a democrat problem. it s a washington problem. dagen: can washington ever tackle this debt, jonas? no that s why we got to get back to the hurricane talk because look yes if we were in balanced budget or even had debt that was half it used to be, we could pay f