effort to begin talking about restructuring entitlements which is a necessity. democrats can attack the plan but they, too, must face up to the fiscal reality and come up with their own plans. the government accountability office concludes that america faces a fiscal gap of $99.4 trillion over the next 75 years. now, that would mean we would have to increase taxes on average by 50% or reduce spending by 35% simply to stop accumulating more debt than we already have. medicare, medicaid and social security will, together make up 50% of the federal budget by 2021, in ten years. for liberals, this long-term fiscal crisis should seem devastating. if entitlement programs continue to grow, they will soon crowd out almost all other government spending. this means there will be little money left for programs to address poverty, communication,
for government ends september 30. you only have a few months to actually be able to grab savings. i understand the frustration of people, try being in our shoes. we have campaigned and fought tore this and do it every day. we beat the president from the aspect that he said he wants to freeze spending. we cut more cuts in the last two weeks than they cut since world war ii. neil: but you do seem to be saying that the the fix eightion on the continuing resolution or what is a budget back to last year that was never called a budget misses the greater point that you are focused on 2012, right? we re focused about the future. our budget will lay out a future that america can be more prosperous and that is what we see with paul ryan s budget but it is going to have sacrifices. we look forward to seeing you, congressman. thank you very much. thanks for having me. neil: now, you to california. what do you make of what he just said, social security will, indeed, be on the table and bi