PRESTOPUNDIT

$1.2 TRILLION -- the cost of George Bush's drug welfare program. The fiscal damage Bush has done to the country with his massive expansion of federal spending easily dwarfs the size of the Social Security crisis. Quotable:

Last March, Richard S. Foster, Medicare's chief actuary for nearly a decade, said administration officials threatened to fire him if he disclosed his belief in 2003 that the drug package would cost $500 billion to $600 billion.

Posted by Greg Ransom