[kg_veteran]

dude - You bring up an interesting suggestion. It might have to work that way in our current political system, because I don't know if anybody has enough courage to face the constituents and say that their (fill in the blank with the pork barrel project of your choice) isn't going to be there any more because we can't afford it. Look at how the Senator from Alaska reacted when the rather obvious pork barrel Bridge to Nowhere was attacked. He took it as a personal affront, primarily because he was afraid his constitutents would get pissed if he didn't.

We spend too much money, and the money we do spend isn't spent efficiently. If an across-the-board cut is what is required, I'm all for it.