if you add up the unfundedet liabilities and all 50 states you get by one estimate aboutadp $3 trillion total. at washington's promises of social security and medicare alone and it's over $50 trillion.hat $50 trillion that we've promisee to the ame grican people ifoi we pay for something must be donebc and now it's time to do it republicans are willing and wwe ready. where is the president? suddenly the moment we can actually do something about this he's silent. it, for as one columnist in "the washington post" put it, a mange talking about change we can believe then the president can be a strangely passive ssive president. e of one of the greatest fiscal challenges -- excuse me, the greatest fiscal challenge of tha day he appears at least so far to have taken a pass.e this is obviously deeplyven my disappointing to me personally given my repeatedly raising of l this issue. ert more importantly should beam deeply disicappointed to every c american who had reason to hope we could tackle these issues in a moment of divided government. and it should be disappointing to all of those who bel