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[mlsoft]

kop...

I had an experience that I'll never forget when it comes to budgets and planning. Group project. It was a simple task, take the budget and cut 200 billion from it. Sounds easy.

When you take every line item and search and search. I can assure you it was one of the hardest tasks. In every case, any cut lost jobs, hurt the program, and even hurt or hindered help for people.

My point is, these programs must be looked at from a whole perspective, not individual. That's why it's broke. There are not 4 pies to take slices from, there is only one.

Frankly, that is nonsense, especially if you are talking about the federal budget. Cutting 200 Billion out of the federal budget would take about 5 minutes with some of the time being used for a coffee break. There are not just "4" slices of the pie to be trimmed, there are probably 40,000 slices that can be worked on -- virtually all can be cut, and many bloated bureaucracies can be completely eliminated.

The place to start is the Constitution, where it gives specific authority in some areas to the Federal Government, and then says that everything else is expressly the province of the individual states. Just by abiding by the Constitution would save enormous amounts of money and would be a gigantic first step to getting this nation back on the right track, not only economically, but socially and legally as well.

mlsoft