Entitlements represent one of the largest and fastest-growing portions of the federal budget

I: Posterity in Danger; 1: The Imperiled American Dream; 2: The Myths of Entitlements; 3: A Fiscal Nightmare; II: The Forces Driving the Projections; 4: Driving the Projections: An Aging Society; 5: Driving the Projections: Health-Care Hyperinflation; 6: Driving the Projections: Indexing; III: From Complacency to Reform; 7: Social Security: The End of the Chain Letter; 8: The Federal Pension Bonanza; 9: Health-Care Policy: Facing the Painful Trade-Offs; Conclusion; 10: The Failure of the Libertarian Welfare State