Yostivanich

Ah, the Amer­i­can pub­lic. God love 'em. The Econ­o­mist asked if they'd rather tackle the fed­eral deficit by cut­ting spend­ing or rais­ing taxes, and the run­away win­ner was cut­ting spend­ing, by a mar­gin of 62% to 5%. So what are we will­ing to cut? Answer: pretty much nothing.

via Cut­ting the Deficit – Mother Jones. Add up every­thing that even a quar­ter of the pop­u­la­tion is will­ing to cut and you wind up with under 5% of the fed­eral budget.