Richie: Would you care to offer some of the areas in which you'd cut?

I mean, we all have our pet projects that we like - and our "hit list" of stuff we'd like to get rid of. But unless you hit the BIG guys (Defense, Social Security, Medicare) as well as the little guys (Foreign Aid, Amtrak, etc), you're just not going to get enough blood out of the stone.

Personally, I think cuts to the Big Guys are more palatable if *everyone* is getting cut. *Shared* sacrifice is something that should be able to pass more easily than a bill which would provide so much noise along the lines of "How come (fill in the blank) is getting a free pass?"