Entitlements as a percentage of the budget

Grover Norquist and his Republican "gimme tax breaks" buddies are always carping about how Medicare and Social Security, being "entitlements," constitute an ever-increasing share of the national budget and should have their allocations slashed.

These are the folks who claim that Democrats who refuse to rescind budgeted increases, such as cost-of-living increases, want to "raise taxes."

Well, when you consider the rate at which they have cut spending on every program that is NOT protected, the only inevitable outcome is for the entitlement share to grow.

As in "Well, duh!"

Think about it.