re: Powell: ‘The US is on an unsustainable fiscal path’

US Entitlement spending accounts for 50% of the Budget. That’s food stamps, welfare, housing, Medicaid, rehabilitation programs for druggies, you name it. The problem is clearly entitlement spending. However, no politician has the balls to end it or even try to debate a better way to pay for those who refuse to work, or are perpetual government handout leaches. Who keep in mind breed the rest of their families to think a like. Until we as a collective whole figure out how to help those who refuse to work or come up with a Buddy system to support them on our own we are fricked as a nation.