Thank you for clearing that up Bill. I agree there is simply NO WAY we can remain solvent with the current explosion of big government expansion. Just some random thoughts on cutting down our government :

I,m thinking, drop ALL redundant fed programs, as there are thousands of them first. Abolish the EPA right off the bat as they prove themselves to be a complete as to their mission statement when they created that farce of an agency. THEN give all depts 90 days to cut 40% of their redundant, do-nothing employees. ( After new agency heads are installed, real managers, NOT Liberal activists like L Jackson at EPA) ALL subsidies to be phased out in 3 years. No exceptions. Then attack the WASTE, such as 150 employees in same building EACH having a separate printer because they are too lazy to walk 20 feet to a printer. 1 printer per floor per 30,000 sq feet of office space.
I have never had a job where the company paid for my travel to work, gas, food, coffee, $16.00 muffins, tolls, globetrotting worldwide vacations disguised as business, like studying billboards that LaHood’s transportation dept. was caught doing this year, etc. All of that stops immediately. Install retired CPA’s and forensic accountants into the SSI admin. dept to do nothing but check for fake SSI numbers, weed out the disability fraudsters and Medicare rip-off artists, just for a start. Abolish the Dept of Education completely.Give the States block grants and let them ensure the best education policies. Install work for welfare program across the nation. If states want to explode taxpayers electric bills by mandating solar like in New Hampshire, they will fund it themselves and their taxpayers will pay the toll, not federal dollars from other states.Maybe the N/H voters will install some conservatives into office after they see their electric bills tripled.

It doesn’t take 500 politicians and 150,000 aids and political appointees to reduce government deficits, just a little common sense.

Thanks for your comment