"Faster economic growth can only delay the inevitable..."

"Faster economic growth can only delay the inevitable hard choices.  To close the long-term entitlement gap, the U.S. economy would have to grow by double digits every year for the next 75 years.
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The fact is, we do not have the resources to sustain these programs in the long run.  There is no way around this simple fact, a fact politicians consistently ignore or conceal in order to tell Americans what they think their fellow countrymen want to hear." -Page 83 of The Revolution, A Manifesto