US just cannot afford it.

Returning to White House numbers, Social Security will eclipse defense spending by 2017. SS is projected to cost $1 trillion. Medicare/Medicaid will also eclipse defense spending and cost about $1 trillion in 2017. Add in our estimated interest cost of another trillion and you get $3 trillion of outlays before you even pay to run the Federal Government (defense, commerce, state, etc.).

And Obama does have a spending problem