without raising taxes? Reduced spending sufficient to offset ANY new programs or initiatives.
Only those in Washington and their supporters continue to accept new programs as additive to an already bleeding bottom line.
This is not an Obama phenomonem, nor is it in the ever popular lump it all in again on Bush era.
It has been the operating mode for far too many years.

The only way to reduce the deficit is to stop the spending. Very simple, obvious answer that does not seem to garner ANY interest from any administration including the current one that is setting records with it's monstrous spending programs with only words (rarely) about where the funding will come from.

The most reliable, guaranteed way to fix an ailing business is to strangle spending to a minimum. A very unpopular approach even in corporate America, where at least some have accountability and responsibility and a concept of an income statement. In Washington there is no accountability or responsibility to reduce spending....and there certainly is no concept of an income statement.

It is a very simple concept....but foreign to wealthy political lawmakers who have no knowledge or desire to implement.

btk