Chicken Little Rides Again!

Gary Varvel, 4/25/12:

The news that Social Security and Medicare will possibly run out of money -- assuming everything stays exactly the same for several decades, which it never has yet -- is a shocking new development, and not something that crops up every four or five years, to be fixed by tinkering with those programs.

Also of note: if there was a calendar in this cartoon, it would have to read at least 2030, because that's when those programs are currently projected to have difficulty funding their currently-mandated levels based on their currently-projected income.

One might also decide to look at the federal budget for 2030, as much as such a thing can be projected, and see if it is equally solvent.