[USCG SimTech]

The House would have to cut 330 billion right off the top, just to remove the pork the senate added.

Then cut another $1.2 trillion this year and every successive year just to not add PRINCIPLE to the national debt. Never mind pay down the national debt.

[publius911]

Then cut another $1.2 trillion this year and every successive year just to not add PRINCIPLE to the national debt.

The principle was demolished long ago; it is no longer subject to adding or subtracting.
The principal, on the other hand, keeps increasing...