Are you talking about medicare or social security? If we took a little under half of the increase in defense spending in the ~2002-2006 period, social security

Are you talking about medicare or social security? If we took a little under half of the increase in defense spending in the ~2002-2006 period, social security could be made solvent for the next 75 years: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6514572148606053094#18m55s http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6514572148606053094... It isn't exactly out of our capacity to do. We just have to stop blowing things up and destroying wealth.