
Originally Posted by
eddiememphis
None of it will amount to a thing compared to the big three- Social Security (1.3B), Medicare and Medicaid (1.7B) and welfare (780B), and no one is willing to touch those entitlement programs.
National defense could surely use a trimming (820B) but as what cost?
Total Federal payroll is around 280B so even firing everyone would do very little to affect the 6.75T spending.