I think that we also degrade some of the benefit of college if we don't expect the kids to do something at the same time for their college. But that's just an example of one of many kinds of new programs that are being suggested. Everybody has some constituents that they would like to give something to. With all of the existing ones of course there's always a big constituency. That's how they got there in the first place, and then once the money is in place the constituency grows.
Every single program has to be looked at.
I mentioned during the campaign that I was highly in favor of strategic planning. That's where each agency has to have a mission statement and then goals and then make those goals measurable, and evaluate down to the very smallest agency, exactly what it is they're trying to do, and what they're doing that ties in with that mission. And those become easy cuts. The government has never been forced to look at the fat in government that way. Instead they try to eliminate high profile things like Yellowstone Park, because they know there'll be a national furor against doing that, and there should be.