Next Time Some Fool Wants to Talk to You About Government Spending...

Don't let them give you any business about cutting welfare or education as some sort of pie in the sky fix-it. Seven programs make up 75 percent of federal spending:

Social Security,
Medicare,
Medicaid,
Military Pensions,
Civil Service Pensions
Defense
Interest on the Debt (note i said interest, not the debt itself)

Ask 'em which one they want to cut, because nipping the Park Service or NASA won't do a damn thing to 'fix the budget'. Ask 'em where do they see the best place to cut? Sick or Elderly? Defense or Retired Soldiers? Problems are a little tougher when you don't have a "welfare queen" to blame.