[kabar]

I seriously doubt that there is the political will to cut programs like Medicaid and food stamps entirely. We have 60 million people on Medicaid and 44 million on food stamps. They represent a considerable cost driver and must be addressed. The cost drivers of our budget deficits are the entitlement programs and means tested welfare. And certainly defense spending will also have to be reduced eventually.

I wish we could eliminate the welfare state entirely, bgut the votes just aren't there to do it. It is going to take generations to undo what has been done since FDR and LBJ.

[SaraJohnson]

You are right. There is not the political will to cut the Federal government’s scope of work as it has expanded into a socialist monster. And it is not just welfare for the poor - it is welfare to feed the causes and careers of the socialist elite and internationalists which is even more ravishing to the well being of the country than is the socialism for the poor.

That is why I say this “deficit reduction” game is nonsense. They are not going to be able to maintain the socialist monster they have created and there is no political will to change it.