the budget. the bulk of our spending goes to defense, social security, medicare and medicaid. >> we have very skewed perspectives. >> reporter: why do you think that is? >> probably the media. >> reporter: we in the media can take some of the blame but also the politicians who are making a small part of the budget a huge part of the budget fight. they're not talking about or touching the biggest challenges. social security, medicare and medicaid. jessica yellin, cnn, washington. it's funny. jessica should mention social security, medicare and medicaid because if you want to know where your taxpayer dollars are going, this is a graphic from the white house. you can go to white house.gov and get this. and this is where the money goes. and the bigger the box, the more federal dollar that is go to that program. you can see here, medicare is a huge box. social security's huge, huge box f. you want to know about health care, little box right here.