Because cutting stuff like that is a drop in the bucket.
The major budget items are Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and Defense.
The only way to significantly reduce the deficit or balance the budget is to cut one or all of the above.
If they aren’t willing to cut that “drop in the bucket” only a moron would believe they’ll make real cuts.
OOHHH I dunno,
Cutting back ALL bureaukaratz agencies by at least 50% and ending the lavish pay raises, colas, retirement bennies, and free health care for fedgov workers and putting a freeze on hiring any new ratz, would all go a long way to finding big money.
Sheesh, sorry for that long dang sentence.
“Because cutting stuff like that is a drop in the bucket.
The major budget items are Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and Defense.”
Yes and no. Stuff like Arts and bike paths are chump change. But stuff like food stamps, the EIC, ‘Education’, and Housing are real money, when considered next to the cuts in Defense.
The items you list are the big-ticket items and (other than Defense) will drive us broke. They have to be reformed, but first Defense needs to be protected - so cut the spending in the useless programs that I mentioned above, and then get on to Medicaid and Welfare Programs for the elderly.