While that is true, I often wonder why we're expending so much energy trying to solve tomorrow's problems first, rather than today's.

I mean, it's not like deficit spending is new, and it's not like people having been screaming about reforming Social Security for the past three decades.

Tomorrow is closer than it used to be, but even if we "fix" Social Security and Medicare, that won't do a damn thing to reduce the structural deficits we're running now.