By DAVID LIGHTMAN AND KEVIN G. HALL - McClatchy Newspapers Published 1:00 am PDT Sunday, October 12, 2008 WASHINGTON -- Social Security and Medicare long have been considered the nation's fiscal time bombs, and the ticking is getting louder. But presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have no comprehensive plans to overhaul the systems, and are campaigning almost as if they don't notice them. Medicare faces insolvency by 2019. Social Security is projected to be spending more than it's collecting in taxes by 2017. Yet both Obama and McCain offer only minor fixes - and few specifics even about the modest ideas they do float. Bigger, bolder, more sweeping approaches are needed, and fast, the experts say. "They're not preparing the country for sacrifice," said Robert Bixby, the executive director of the Concord...
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