a solution
Posted by John Vidale on September 01, 2011 at 11:32:35:

With the normal expansion of the military budget, and the COMPLETE elimination of ALL other Federal spending, we MIGHT be able to balance the budget for a few years. Or maybe not.

It's clear Medicade, Social Security, and the highways and schools need to go, and taxes should be lowered still more (see the well-named Reagan-Laffer Curve).