Good stuff, but you haven’t gone far enough. The $12 billion “surplus” would need to be applied to paying down our debt. We can’t just keep paying the interest, we actually need to pay down $14 trillion in debt and $12 billion is a drop in a huge bucket. Even if we could find $500 billion a year to pay off the debt it would take us over a quarter of a century to pay off the debt. What are the chances of staying on the kind of budget that cuts spending far more drastically than what you’re showing for 28 years? It is inevitable that we are going to collapse under this debt, default on the debt, or have blood in the streets over the severe austerity required to come up with $500 billion per year. Decades of criminally insane spending has brought us here and it will be our children and grandchildren who will suffer the catastrophic consequences of it. This makes me so sick about the future of our country that I want to throw up.
Agree 100%. Even to the sick to stomach point. It really is sad, isn’t it?
Frankly I doubt we have the will to do it. Paul Ryan’s statement that he will have trouble finding $100billion in cuts because we are already 1/2 way into the fiscal year is a joke. What a clown.