“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.”
No disagreement with what you are saying, but a big part of eliminating those agencies, etc. is that Congress would be demonstrating that it was serious about the task. The public needs this assurance when you’re talking about cuts to entitlement programs that directly affect individuals.
And the flip side of the coin is that, if Obama and his wrecking crew weren’t destroying so many private sector industries and jobs, the government would be taking in more tax revenues, and all things being equal, the size of deficits would be reduced.
Then we're doomed.