The other day someone said lets take a look at the budget and draw a red line through everything that has been added since the  pipeline began.  That should be the base budget. Now add back only things that are truly a function of government and that we have the money to pay for. We should end up with  a "right size government". What we have was built by politicians to spend all that we have so they would be reelected. We need to accept some of hte responsibility fo rwhat they have done to us.. The time to solve the problem is now and not with more sleight of hand cuts.Do your job and fix the problem.