[92nina]

The Joint Committee has a multitude of ways to find $1.5 trillion in savings. ATR has offered a few commonsense options here.

Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at Digg and at Reddit and in Stumbleupon and Delicious

[ataDude]

A freeze at 2012 levels? How about at 2008 levels?

[Blue Ink]

That’s nice.

Now, how do we sue Congress in Federal court for illegally outsourcing their jobs and one man/one vote duties?

[SERKIT]

The Joint Committee has a multitude of ways to find $1.5 trillion in savings. ATR has offered a few commonsense options here.

Central Planning is a disaster in the making. If Congress did its job (which is MY flawed thinking) each committee of jurisdiction couls be told to do a few things:

1) STOP baseline budgeting
2) Cut 5% each year for "X" years.
3) Reduce burdensome regulations, and thus reduce the costs for compliance.

If congress did its job, there would be no need for the super-duper-committee.

[achilles2000]

It is easy to get rid of $1.5 trillion over ten years. Just eliminating the DOEs (Education and Energy) would roughly do it.