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[andrewducker]

Americans - want to balance the budget yourself?  Do it here.

(I managed to do it in one stroke.  But I don't think they're actually likely to remove all spending on the military.  Nor do I really think it's a good idea to do so.

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[derumi.livejournal.com]

After multiple tries, I've gotten a $.62 billion(US billion) surplus with cuts of:

40% military (not as bad as it sounds, a lot of spending is because of Congressional stupidity, IMO)
100% Iraq war (Afghanistan, yes. Iraq, why?)
10% general government administration
50% corporate tax breaks
70% itemized deductions

and increases in spending of:

50% general science, space, and technology
100% community and regional development

$6.1 US billion surplus can be attained with keeping corporate tax breaks and dropping military spending by 50% instead. I like this, but I'm not an economist... Who knows how it'd really work out? The biggest downside I can see is that Canada will surely invade.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

I did it in several moves. Good game. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/yonmei/249470.html#cutid1).

Would agree that it's not a good idea to instantly eliminate all military spending... if I were in charge, I'd plan on doing it over four or five years. ;-)

[derumi.livejournal.com]

I would also not up the "peace-keeping" missions while I'm cutting the military down, like Clinton kid. Attrition by troop suicide sucks from a personal viewpoint. Cut the military down, cut the jobs down. Let Europe do most of the work for Europe and their former colonial holdings. >_>

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Certainly I'm all in favour of American military never actually going anywhere. Armies that never attack or invade do so much less damage.

[derumi.livejournal.com]

I'm in favor of no military aggression from any country with a military; US, France, Russia included. Not gonna happen, but hey.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me. Let's take over the world and cut the military budget of every country on earth to zero.

[gomichan.livejournal.com]

The real miracle would be doing anything whatsoever with Social Security besides bloating it further. We are the kid with 17 grandmas.