Another faux alarm sounding opinion!  The budget does not cut necessary funding for meals on wheels as that program gets most of its funding elsewhere!  TIGER projects are nearly 50% transit and rail funding.  Most gov't sponsored agencies such as PBS, Nat'l Inst. of Health, etc. are full of lots of employees doing very little since "success" in gov't is growing the bureaucracy which is only done by adding more employees!  

What we may have the beginning of is a "gov't which can live within its means!"  Most of us have to do that every day, so why not the gov't now?