The Fiscal Wake-Up tour

It's making the rounds in the critical primary state of New Hampshire. From the Boston Globe: "Fiscal wake-up tour's inconvenient truth"

..it came courtesy of David Walker, the country's comptroller general, Bob Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, Isabel Sawhill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Alison Fraser, director of economic policy studies at the Heritage Foundation , who are tilling the ground for truth as part of the "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour."

Their message was stark: With the boomers set to begin retiring, the long-term costs of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will soon start to explode -- and unless this country deals with those expenses, huge problems lie ahead.

"Whether you are liberal, conservative, middle of the road, Democrat, Republican, Independent, the numbers don't add up," says Bixby. "It's a matter of arithmetic, not ideology."

Testify, brother.