[cherry]

I don't know if we can drain all the swamp....too many people benefiting including all the business leaders, the lackey military leaders, the federal work force and all the elected officials...I believe there is so much dark money floating around that it is almost impossible to stop...

but we could cut govt like eliminating the dept of education for one.....stop filling govt positions...slim the work force way down and CUT TAXES to the bone so the swamp critters can't steal it....

and make it mandatory to have a balanced budget...

[matthew fuller]

We need Rick Perry to be put in charge of Department Demolition. He sounds like a great man for that job.

[Jim W N]

If you cut the feds by 80%+, you wouldn’t have to worry about a balanced budget like in the 1800’s when the size of the feds were around 5% of the GDP. The IRS would become a storefront and if there was a deficit it would be relatively minuscule. (But remember, FORCING a balanced budget is ALWAYS and excuse for the Left to raise taxes. Higher taxes are MUCH WORSE than a government deficit.)

I agree that actually draining the swamp - dismantling most of the totalitarian feds and putting it back into its constitutional cage - is a seemingly impossible task. Only the Divine Providence of God Almighty can make that happen. I’m looking for Him to miraculously do that just like in 1776 when He miraculously brought victory to a bunch of rag-tag colonists over the greatest military power on earth.