[tacticalogic]

But it would achieve what we want. It would make government smaller. It would keep making government smaller as the economy would grow and the government would not.

It wouldn't even make a dent in the deficit by the end of his term, and you characterize anything more than that as "slash and burn". A couple of decades of that would be undone by a single Democratic administration, and you know it.

[listenhillary]

I’m not even saying that our politicians are CAPABLE of doing this. It is a less painful way to shrink the government. IF THEY WERE CAPABLE OF DOING IT. It is a start.

If our GDP was 22 trillion dollars and the budget was 2.9 trillion and stayed there for 4 years.

Assuming a 4% growth in GDP for this exercise

At the end of 4 years the budget would have gone from 13.1% of GDP to 11.2% of GDP.

From 13.1 to 9.6% of GDP after 8 years.

[listenhillary]

A couple of decades of that would be undone by a single Democratic administration, and you know it.

Or by nominating Ron Paul who would lose any match up with a democrat in 08.