As the House took up Rep. Paul Ryan's plan to end Medicare and Medicaid yesterday, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, the GOP Conference chair, called the programs, along with Social Security, "cruel ponzi schemes" that will bankrupt the nation.

Hensarling admitted that the three programs had been "of great comfort and assistance to my grandparents and parents," but he went on to claim that that they were now morphing into the greatest drivers of the national debt