[B Knotts]

Cutting spending is important, but it's not nearly as important as cutting taxes. Look at the 1980s. Spending went up a lot, but the economy expanded because of relatively low tax rates.

This bunch just wants to raise taxes; the "balanced budget" thing is just a sham argument to achieve that goal.

[goldstategop]

Yep. The interest of Democrats in cutting the deficit is to leave more money available for social spending programs to dear to their hearts. It has nothing to do with shrinking the size of government or giving people greater choices. Too bad the RINOs don't seem to grasp that cutting the deficit on the Democrats' terms will NOT lead to smaller government.

[South40]

We need cuts in social spending.

The same pen GWB uses to sign these huge spending bills can veto them as well.