This is a combination commentary and expression description. The expression is being used frequently to describe what is going on with the budget, the deficit, and the lack of courage by politicians in not even mentioning the problem with entitlement spending. Politicians noticed what happened to George W. Bush when he was accused of “trying to privatize Social Security” after he proposed allowing younger people be allowed to voluntarily put one third of their Social Security “contributions” into a private retirement account. Everyone knows something needs to be done, and everyone is “kicking the can down the road.”