Jrlz: I like your thoughts on how to solve the budget issues and if your number are correct and valid your solution would work with one small addition. You state letting the Geo Bush Tax Cuts expire and raise Corp taxes we could get to a shortfall of $120 Billion. I'd suggest that if we reduce the Defense budget by 16% Voila, balanced budget. Of course we could restrict the Defense spending to the TOTAL of the next five largest spending countries in the world and save over $300 Billion additional - that would hammer away at the debt too. I said it was easy but we need compromise; not so easy. US Postal Service privatized? Who'd deliver all that junk-mail in my mailbox?