I'm very encouraged by Bush's alarm over social security.

After all, if the President is savvy enough to realize that a
government program will begin paying out more dollars in benefits than
it receives in income about 30 years from now and to know that
represents a problem- surely he will also soon realize that a
government *currently* borrowing 2.16 billion dollars every day to
balance income and expense is a much greater and even more immediate
crisis.


http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

(Not sure whether expenses for the war in Iraq are included in the 2.16
billion, as that war is being waged
"off the books" and expenses are not officially included in the
budget).