Al Kamen in the Post points out a startling statement from Newt Gingrich in 1994:
“If there is a Social Security problem, it is somewhere around 25 to 30 years from now,” Gingrich said. “The problem of children dying in Dumpsters is this evening. To ask me to go past every problem we could solve that is immediate in order to get at an abstraction that is 25 years from now is very bad management of problem-solving.”