Have you ever had a job with no waste to cut?

There's a lot that can be cut but saving money isn't the objective here--destroying the middle class and growing the government is the goal. Both seem to be going quite well and I think Obama and Soros will be quite pleased by 2016.

At work, we try to make our maintenance budget every month. If we have big expense come up, we cut back on the other items to make sure we come in budget for the month. Just as one would with their own paycheck. The legislature department has come to think that their job to pass laws that usually end up spending more money. Well, their job is also to take care of the sacred money that they are pulling in from our taxes and make sure it is being spent wisely. This has gone to the wayside. This should take up most of their time, Not coming up with new bills that will spend more money.

Personally I seem to think there is no hope when it comes to programs and things that are important and often wonder how things even stand a chance of hope. In the end I think he is not really thinking about the American people and the economy in how to help us, and I hate to see what else continues to happen from here.

OMG...with the Government, I am sure that they could find a zillion ways to cut costs!! If they were to hire someone like that then they just might have to change up their little lifestyles a tad bit and I'm sure they don't want to do that. I do very much agree with you though. We had a company come in to the office when I worked in insurance and they went right through the place to make it more efficient time-wise as well as financially. It's quite a process but it does help.

First off, cutting spending at a company is very different than cutting spending in a government. In a corporation you may find pet projects or departments that are funded differently. But, in our government the vast majority of the spending has a lobby attached to it that can and will spend money to ensure that their interest is funded. You don't have this (at this level) in ANY company. Second, you need to look at how items are funded. If you look at a department who's funding is already spent you can cut their department, but that isn't going to effect them today. In many cases the budgets of departments are spent right away so they don't get them cut. So when you have to cut BILLIONS and the only thing you can cut is the salaries because those haven't already been paid, then you have no other choice. Our government could hire an independent cost-efficiency specialist, but who is doing to appoint him? Congress would appoint someone they consider "independent", and if the president appoints someone the right wingers will attack this person no matter who he appoints. Even if you could find someone that everyone approves of you move back to my first point. If they don't have the will to cut funding now, than what do you think will happen when someone else tells them? Maybe if in the last 12 years we would have had a president that ran a business. Someone who was a CEO, someone who maybe ran a baseball team.... This sounds like someone, I just wish I could remember his name..... George W. Bush? I am sure you are NOT talking about THAT guy who had business experience, because when he ran the country our deficit went up, our spending went up, and at the end of his presidency the country was in the worse economic crisis since the great depression. Please tell me again why THIS is what you wanted?