The blue bars in the graph above represents the popularity of various budget cuts. The red bar indicates how much of the budget those items take up.
Reduce the deficit! you say. Shrink the government! But not through Social Security. Or Medicare. Or defense. Daddy likes his aircraft carriers.
Pretty much the only thing polite society can agree on is that we should spend less money on those dirty cheating filthy foreigners. Total savings? Somewhat less than 1% of our budget.
