The unsustainable path of spending and borrowing must be reversed.

Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the "federal budget is on an unsustainable path."

Our social insurance programs, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, which protect millions of American senior citizens, are on an unsustainable long-term path.

Continuing on this unsustainable path will gradually erode, if not suddenly damage, our economy, our standard of living and ultimately our national security.

Overspending by politicians in Washington, D.C. has put our country on an unsustainable fiscal path.

However, the most serious problem, is that the further we travel down this unsustainable path, the harder it will become to reform the system to make it run sustainably.

With the level of federal spending in this omnibus appropriations bill, the United States is still on an unsustainable path toward bankruptcy.

Some, like Jonathan Gruber, a health economist at M.I.T., say change eventually has to come because the nation is on an unsustainable path.

Virtually no one needed to be persuaded that the federal budget is on an unsustainable path.

"America cannot continue on this unsustainable fiscal path, and all government agencies, including the Department of Defense, must be held more accountable for their use of taxpayer funds."