There was this hilarious John Boehner riff when he was speaker after 2010: “History has shown that future spending cuts rarely materialize,” said Andrew Roth,

There was this hilarious John Boehner riff when he was speaker after 2010: “History has shown that future spending cuts rarely materialize,” said Andrew Roth, vice president of government affairs for the Club for Growth, which is best known for financing campaigns against Republicans deemed not conservative enough. "Nothing binds a future Congress from erasing them.” https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0728/Why-John-Boehner-is-determined-to-pass-his-doomed-debt-ceiling-bill https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0728/Why-John-Bo... However theoretically true Boehner's statement, the entitlement spending IS treated as binding, for all the unmet obligations of the government are something like an order of magnitude higher that the already ludicrous debt. No one can credibly accuse Congress of fiscal sobriety. Thanks, Johnny B.