Unlimited Wants.  Limited Means.

Viking Pundit points us to this story and accompanying graph. 

...the cost of government benefits for seniors reached $27,289 per senior in 2007. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits continue to grow much faster than inflation, and as 77 million baby boomers reach retirement in the coming decades, the taxpayer costs of these programs will be enormous. The article highlights the fact that these programs are unsustainable in their current form and that we are on the leading edge of a large intergenerational transfer of wealth from younger workers to retirees.

I have an idea.  Let’s add even more outlays to it and just hope that we have the revenue to pay for it.