In the 2021 black comedy Don’t Look Up, Leonardo DiCaprio plays an astronomer who discovers a comet is about to collide with Earth. Politicians claim they will avert disaster despite having no plan for doing so. The rest of the world mostly ignores the problem, even after seeing the comet with their own eyes. The film ends with humanity being wiped out.

The same thing is happening with entitlement spending. Under current policy, Social Security and Medicare will cause the U.S. to default on its debt within 25 years, upending life as we know it. Republicans claim they can balance the budget without cutting benefits; they’ll instead root out fraud and cut other spending. Democrats say they can do the same by increasing taxes.

Anyone with a calculator and the math skills of a fourth grader knows those claims are baloney. So why does no one talk about it?

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