Let me help you. go to this USAToday article for an easy to read overview

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-28-federal-budget_N.htm

Excerpt from the article:

Bottom line: Taxpayers are now on the hook for a record $59.1 trillion in liabilities, a 2.3% increase from 2006. That amount is equal to $516,348 for every U.S. household. By comparison, U.S. households owe an average of $112,043 for mortgages, car loans, credit cards and all other debt combined.

Unfunded promises made for Medicare, Social Security and federal retirement programs account for 85% of taxpayer liabilities. State and local government retirement plans account for much of the rest.

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The unfunded liabilities og government are set to explode as the demographic trends of the retirement & aging of baby boomers takes hold.

You may not like the war in Iraq and think — like I do — that it is far too costly. But be that as it may, the real financial time bomb that the U.S. is sitting on is not the Defense budget but social entitlements which both parties — but especially your Dims — are bound & possessed to expand.

So, you're suggesting that the defense budget is smaller than Medicare? I'll check on that, but I think you're wrong there too.

Exactly true.

"How about that defense budget? You know, the one larger than all other nations' budgets combined?"

Do the numbers. Entitlements dwarft all else.

Without a strong, large middle-class, we as a nation are doomed===that is a fact. The poor will starve (and revolt), the rich will starve (and hide) because there will be no one left to purchase what the rich have to sell, nor anyone left willing to work for nearly nothing.

We poorer Americans are tired of working without getting ahead, but falling behind and watching as hog-humans pig out and don't share prosperity. If we don't become more kind toward each other, "There will be Blood".

How about that defense budget? You know, the one larger than all other nations' budgets combined?

How about that American Occupied Territory of Iraq? Occupations ain't cheap.

And you're right too, King, in your implied call for cutting the amount of money we squander on the U.N., the most dysfunctional organization of the face of the earth, including even worse than the Dimocrat Party.

But still, such disgressionary spending — as foolish as it is — is not our main problem. What is bankrupting the country is out of control entitlements, something both political parties are responsible for. And on this score, there is, sadly, no end in sight.

[Yes, both political parties are responsible for uncontrolled entitlements. However, let's be clear. It is liberal [leftwing] ideology that promotes this pseudo-socialism while it is the conservatives & libertarians who oppose it.

The GOP is responsible for uncontrolled entitlements — like Bush's prescription medicine plan — to the extent that they are not conservatives …. or even constitutionalists.

So the nut of the problem is really one of ideology than partisanship.]

However, I'm not sure politicians can get elected in this country anymore by advocating financial responsibility. "Free (fill-in-the-blank)" sells better. We tend to pick the guy offering us the lollipop.