if you look up i chartres and cover the red part on the pie chart as the non discretionary outlays, is to be social security, medicare, medicaid, interest on the national debt, and a few other entitlement programs, read part would be over the halfway line on the eye chart, and at the rate at which that is growing, it will be over the three court line within 15 years. almost all the rest is defense. there's a little sliver in there for parks and presence and a few other things. if you fast-forward 15 years and look at what i charges on to look like, it is almost all entitlements and defense. anyone who is serious about solving this problem on the spending side asked to be willing to put on the table sacred cows, including being able to talk about in detail reforming entitlements programs. i take up that challenge. if you are going to be president, you look at people in the eye, and it is going to be the jack nicholson election. there's the famous line when he is on the witness stand and he says, you cannot handle the truth. the american people i think can handle the truth. it does not m