Prior to adjourning for its August recess Congress approved a bill raising the debt ceiling and potentially eliminating $1,000,000,000+ from the budget over the next 10 years.  That’s the good news.

The bad news is a measure was proposed shortly thereafter to curtail the so-called ‘super committee’ entrusted to tackle deficit-reduction from considering cuts to Medicare and Social Security.

What?  Are they serious?  The way to address deficit-reduction is to ignore entitlements?  These programs are HUGE unfunded liabilities and the largest contributors to our nation’s debt and we’re going to pretend they don’t exist?

Ugh!