Toward the end of the next decade, deficits stemming largely from entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare will begin to rise indefinitely.

WHITEHOUSE: Testimony of Director Bolten

America has become a country that routinely hunts down and kills individual terrorist enemies overseas - apparently now in preference to capturing and detaining them indefinitely - and its citizens put up with more burdensome security restrictions in transportation and in public places than before, as well as with a somewhat less constricted system of domestic electronic surveillance.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy