CIA chief Panetta tells Congress US debt, deficits are a threat to national security – Reuters
The people who tell us that the deficit is a deadly existential threat that nonetheless does not require their taxes to be raised remind me a lot of the people who told us that extremists in Iraq were a deadly existential threat that nonetheless did not require them or their children to volunteer for military services.
In other words, deadly existential threats that require the little people to sacrifice.