First off, that includes running the current winding-down war today (thanks obama), many years after its peak. Those wars cost us 2t already and 4t when you con

First off, that includes running the current winding-down war today (thanks obama), many years after its peak. Those wars cost us 2t already and 4t when you consider our long term committments of taking care of our veterans. Social security isn't discretionary spending or an entitlement. Its a fucking national retirenment buy-in program thats helped eliminate much senior poverty. Medicare is the healthcare end of this. I pay in so I get something back in the future. We'd have less interest debt if we could pay for our wars, but can't thus that huge interest debt, or at least a large part of it. Bush walked in with little debt and left us a shit-pile of war debt. Wars and all these wargames are discretionary and massive. Its the obvious cut for a sane society. Problem is, this isn't a sane society.