I will never live to see any serious efforts by the politicians of both parties to try to solve this.

The best any of them has done is "to slow the rate of deficit growth"!  BFD!!!!

This is  just prolonging the pain of a balanced budget where America lives within it's means.

God help our children, grandchildren and all of their children.

The thing to remember is the politicians are the problem and they are doing quite well while they have no worries cause they don't have to follow the laws as you and I do.