Americans are getting the government they want  We blame
politics, always say Washington is all dysfunctional. They’re
responding reasonably efficiently to what the American people
want, which is to take the future’s money and spend it on
ourselves.  And so what we are looking at, the next generation,
according to the IMF, is going to have one-third fewer benefits
and one-third higher taxes if we act now.  If we wait five
years, it will be 50 percent more taxes, 50 percent fewer
benefits. It is just terrible for the future generations. So I
do think it starts with the American people. Nonetheless, I do
blame everyone else, too, including us, I guess.  But I would
blame the Republicans for saying they want to control spending,
talking of beating their chests about it, but they don’t have a
strategy, because they don’t actually have the guts to propose
spending cuts. And so they talk about the debt, the debt, the
debt for years and years. They finally have a chance to propose
some actual reforms.  They can’t do