That's because the average salary of a bureaucrat sitting on their ass in Washington, or around the country, in an air conditioned office is over $70,000 while the average salary of a man or woman risking their life for each of us is about $20,000. Juxtapose those numbers and we'd solve a bunch of problems.

I was able to get the expenditure down to $139B without batting an eye or cutting into military salaries, IRS refunds (which is NOT an expense, its money they should never have had) or social security. Never mind the fact that this is a very elementary exercise since we're only allowed to completely cut things rather than cut parts of them.

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