CSPAN Politics Public Policy Today November 29, 2011
to put these programs on autopilot. in other words, the united states chose, and it is the only country in the world that i can find, not to read the budget for these entitlement programs, so when you look around the world, other countries, even countries that have very generous programs have a budget for health care, for instance. the united states does not. we said eligibility and benefits guidelines and then write a check. social security is budgeted similarly. so we should not be surprised when the autopilot costs -- costs grow so rapidly. this is subject to forced annual appropr...