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[sylvester80]

>>>well we can cut 100% of the interest if we quit spending more than we take in

Very good... so why not start with the biggest sucking sound out there. The DEFENSE budget. Nothing else comes even close. The defense budget is 10x or MORE than any other part of the discretionary budget. The reason why you can't cut social security or medicare/medicaid (or the interest we pay on the loans we took) is because that is money that people already payed in (take a look at your withholdings), or money that other countries already gave us as loans (just like your mortgage). This isn't tax money that the government took in to spend for discretionary items, like defense. These are YOUR money that the government took in as withholdings so that YOU can pay for your SS and medicare. Withholdings are separate from taxes. SO... how about cutting that defense budget by 50%?? Even with that 50% cut it will still be bigger than any other spending by the U.S. government out there. And will certainly solve all our budgetary and deficit problems almost overnight.