Home | About GAO | Contact GAO | Site Map | E-mail Updates | Help

Keyword or Report #
Advanced Search

GAO.GOV

  • Reports & Testimonies
  • Legal Decisions
  • Comptroller General
  • Topic Collections
  • Careers
  • FraudNET
GAO.GOV

Saving Our Future Requires Tough Choices Today

Download the presentation [PDF] [TXT]

Table of contents

  • Saving Our Future Requires Tough Choices Today
  • Composition of Federal Spending
  • Federal Spending for Mandatory and Discretionary Programs
  • Selected Fiscal Exposures: Sources and Examples 2004
  • Composition of Spending as a Share of GDP Under Baseline Extended
  • Composition of Spending as a Share of GDP Assuming Discretionary Spending Grows with GDP after 2005 and All Expiring Tax Provisions are Extended
  • Social Security and Medicare's Hospital Insurance Trust Funds Face Cash Deficits
  • Key Dates Highlight Long Term Challenges of the Social Security System
  • Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid Spending as a Percent of GDP
  • Another Way to Think About These Numbers
  • Current Fiscal Policy Is Unsustainable
  • We Need a Multifaceted Approach to Close the Long-Term Fiscal Gap
  • 21st Century Challenges Report
  • Strategic Plan Themes
  • Generic Reexamination Criteria with Sample Questions
  • Twelve Reexamination Areas
  • Selected 21st Century Questions
  • Where Do We Go from Here?
  • Final
  • Home
  • About GAO
  • Contact GAO
  • Privacy & Other Site Policies
  • FOIA
  • Site Map
  • E-mail Updates
  • Help
Accountability   Integrity   Reliability