KQED McLaughlin Group April 14, 2013
and medicare. so i think he put this out here. but john the real long-term problem medicare, medicaid social security eat up more and more and more of the budget. you mentioned defense and discretionary spending go down less and less and less. and i think it is, you know, this is no new deal or no new frontier or no great society. it is a timid budget, i think. and it is a grim budget for the united states. the cpi is the consumer price index. make your point again about that. >> well chain cpi, what it is,. >> chained. social security is indexed. cost of living increased, in the n...