[toomuchtodo]

The top three US non discretionary spending categories are Social Security, Medicare, and Defense. I whole heartedly agree it's time to gut US defense spending, considering we spend more than the next 10 countries combined.

[cobookman]

Cutting spending would make the us look weak. Simply not increasing it drastically is good too. Over a long period of time inflation will take over and the spending amount as a percentage of gdp will go down.