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Right now, we spend nearly 2 dollars for every dollar coming in. That suggests we need cuts of at least 40%, including cuts in Social Security and Medicare.

The truth is right now, Americans wouldn’t put up with it. We’ve figured out we like to eat from the pig trough, and we don’t care what it takes. If a conservative is serious, he needs to look at significant cuts in SS & Medicare and welfare and school ‘loans’ and all the other untouchable, dearly loved vote-buying dollars.

If we totally eliminated the Defense Department twice over, we wouldn’t have a balanced budget.

Like Cato the Elder, who ended every speech in the Roman senate, no matter what the primary topic was, with the closing statement "And Carthage must be destroyed", the Republicans should just say that "Social Security and Medicare are bankrupting this country and we need to address that issue."

Say it on TV about 5000 times in the next two years.

If George Bush had spent his last term talking about Fannie and Freddie and the Real estate crisis, saying: "Barney Frank says real estate loans are fine, but I say they will implode and plunge this country into a deep recession" -- if Bush had said that about 5000 times, I don't think we'd be hearing quite so much about Obama "inheriting a problem".

Social Security and Medicare are problems. Say it loud. Say it often.

Right now, we spend nearly 2 dollars for every dollar coming in. That suggests we need cuts of at least 40%, including cuts in Social Security and Medicare.

Not for Social Security. Its about one for one.