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lets see...SS and Disab payments cost 800 billion a year...medicare and Medicaid another 800 billion a year...defense of the country another 800 billion...for a total if 2.4 trillion...total us govt budget for 2010 is 3.6 trillion...looks like we could easily cut a trillion without screwing all of those who have work their whole lives and paid all the SS and MED taxes...of course the first thing everyone wants to cut is the SS, Disab and MED

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I won't argue with any of your points. If you were to look back at all my old posts (I wouldn't even wish that on an enemy); you'd see that I've been hectoring fellow Freepers about the need to eliminate deficits for years and years. It's your country; I'm just a friendly outsider, so the methods are entirely up to the collective “you”.

In my previous post, I was just trying to point out that even Obama promised significantly lower deficits. Zero deficits would be ideal. (Slogan: “Zero for Zero”) The worst-case, fall-back position should be deficits no higher than Obama promised.