Congress Kicks the Can Down the Road: Chapter 100
In recent years as Congress actually struggled to reduce the nation’s debt – a goal that has now all but disappeared in the nation’s capital – the media took to referring to lost opportunities for Congressional action as “kicking the can down the road.” That characterization was well justified because almost every time Congress was faced with a deadline, it refused to make politically difficult choices that would address the long-term debt by putting entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security on a more sensible long-term budget….Read More