I took a hard look at Congressman Connie Mack's "penny plan" in another thread in this forum. It doesn't come close to balancing the budget. I can't figure out why he even proposed the bill, other than maybe to get some face time on TV. The Republican leaders in the House must have seen the errors in his arithmetic too, as they haven't let it see the light of day for a vote.

The "problem" you cite isn't just the Democrats, it's the whole Congress. NONE of them are willing to do any substantial cutting of spending. Didn't we just see that in the bill passed last week? After two months or wrangling the entire 535 members of Congress could only come up with $915 billion in cuts over 10 years, with the first cuts not beginning until 2014! (That's two elections from now!)

On an annual basis they were only able to come up with cuts of 2/10 of one percent of the federal budget.....To "balance" the budget would require spending cuts of about 42% of annual spending!