it really is a very easy process to balance the budget. It takes direction and leadership from the top to make a budget come out the way of expectation. There is no way to get there by sitting on the throne and waiting for one side or the other to submit a list and then squawk about the objective not being met.

Direction and leadership....totally absent from the WH, hence the no budget continues like a merry go round the entire duration of Obama's presidency.

A good start would be for him to say;

Show me a budget that does not allow ANY spending above 2010/2011 ACTUAL SPENDING. That should be done without any effort on anybody's part what so ever.

Cap all programs that are inactive that have a balance still carried forward in the budget and terminate the project and zero out the unspent funds.

Show me what would have to be taken out of spending without touching Medicare, Social Security and National defense....whether we like the impact or not....to achieve a balanced budget. Let us just see what it would look like to do so.

Simple budget direction very common in well run businesses every day.
SInce nobody in the government ever ran a business....and most never had a real job....their is a complete absence of reality.....combined with no direction and leadership, the results are the circus we are currently witnessing.

Just to name a few.

It will never happen with beholding politicians in office (I think beholding politicians is a double entente!!).

btk