[American Constitutionalist]

" Someone is going to have to. Anyone who claims that they can balance the budget without tackling entitlements like Social Security or Medicare is delusional. "

Yes and No....
Yes, it needs to be dealt with, and no ( there are other programs and or departments that are a total waste and needs to be cut now ).
Cut the E.P.A. , I.R.S., the Department of Education ( the states should only have the authority for this ), HUD, so on and so on.

[Qbert]

“...Cut the E.P.A. , I.R.S., the Department of Education ( the states should only have the authority for this ), HUD, so on and so on.”

Yep. Start with cuts to those agencies (although, cutting the IRS would be a hard sell at this point given declining tax revenues, etc.) and go from there.

[Non-Sequitur]

Cut the E.P.A. , I.R.S., the Department of Education ( the states should only have the authority for this ), HUD, so on and so on.

You could defund every bit of discretionary spending except for Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs in the 2010 budget, eliminate every single agency from Agriculture through HUD and Education and IRS and NASA and on down to Transportation, and you would still have a budget deficit of over $1 trillion.

Any one who honestly thinks that the budget can be balanced without touching Social Security and Medicare is fooling themselves.