It's the Unfunded Wars and the Financial Fraud, and the Unwillingness to Reform

Yes, the US has some very real long term issues with Social Security and Medicare.

Social Security is being strangled by the refusal to raise the income limit on the Social Security withholding tax in response to the gradual creep of inflation. If this limit was raised periodically the Social Security 'problem' would be resolved.

Medicare and in particular the drug portions of the program