One thing that should immediately pop out at even the casual observer:  the traditional bugaboos of the right (social services for poor people, welfare, etc.) are a tiny, tiny minority of the budget.  You can cut them down to an expenditure of 0, and you won't really change the bottom line.<p>If we're going to come to terms with the national deficit, we're going to have to accept the fact that military, social security and medicare expenditures are going to have to shrink.  The problem is not poor people:  it's old people and wars.