The Federal Budget has been out of whack for nearly thirty years. Republicans have been talking about eliminating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in the budget about that entire time. For the most part, it ain't there, at least not where they've been looking. If truly want to balance the budget on spending cuts, they'd have to look at the sacred cows:
1. The Armed Forces. The U.S. spends more on its military than the rest of the world combined. Yet it's barely holding its own against two failed states: Iraq and Afghanistan. That does not make the case for the efficiency and competence of the U.S. Military. Do we truly want to be playing the role of the World's Policeman with the World's most expensive bludgeons?
2. Homeland Security. We are coming up on a decade since 9/11. It's time to take a look at the wall that we threw *ahem* money at, and see what stuck. Trim and refocus.
3. Public Health System. For the amount of money that it sucks up, our Health care system should be the best in the world, but that it isn't. We should take a good hard look at what economic rents are being extracted by the medical system, and rejigger the game a bit.
