In a recent Washington Post article focused on the upcoming stimulus package, one potential stumbling block was identified as "Blue Dog" concerns about the deficit, and the need for pay-as-you-go cuts to balance new expenditures. Here's the link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/03/AR2009010300721_2.html?sid=ST2009010302071&s_pos
And here's a relevant quote: "That could sour some deficit hawks on the idea. 'It's going to be very problematic to me unless they can tell me how it's going to be paid for,' said Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), a leading centrist Democrat."
Well, I've got some suggestions: how about some cuts in the military budget, which has grown totally out of control during the Bush/Cheney Era?
Maybe we could end the occupation of Iraq? Close several hundred overseas bases? Block the unnecessary new weapons systems that have been left on the table--say, the F35 Joint Strike Fighter & the F/A-22 Raptor, the V-22 Osprey, the Virginia-Class submarine, offensive space weapons, SDI, the DDG-1000, and Future Combat Systems?
After all, that's where the (future) money is...
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