The Economy | Unchecked, entitlements will eat more of budget

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, February, 2007 | by Andrew Cassel

Back when we typed our work on paper, an editor I knew had a blunt but effective way of expressing his disdain for dense prose. A hapless reporter would get his story handed back with "MEGO" scrawled in thick red crayon - short for My Eyes Glaze Over.

I felt a similar urge this week when I read about President Bush's latest budget, a massive document detailing how the administration wants to spend $2.9 trillion of our tax dollars in fiscal 2008 and beyond.

Do we really have to spend the next few months debating this? Doesn't Congress have more scintillating things to do, like debating who leaked whose name to which Beltway insider, or picking apart the sex lives of all the first cousins of the 2008 presidential hopefuls?

Budgets are soooo dull, after all -...