1Perry, the problem is not the cutting - everybody wants cuts, but we don't all agree about where the cuts need to be made.
For me, cuts in farm aid is not a reason for celebration - failing to cut the most egregious groups suckling on the government teat (likely because they are also the biggest GOP contributors) while trying to cut Medicare, Social Security, education, healthcare and aid to the largest group producing American made products (farmers) is not what I support.
If you're refering to "Big Oil" they contribute heavily to government, not the GOP exclusively. I'm so incredibly tired of this psuedo-partyline pandering nonsense. When you have an unsustainable program you fix the program. That may mean "cuts", but that doesn't have to mean "cut in benefits". Of course, it has become common practice on both sides of the aisle (and on both sides of the peanut gallery) to spew panic-laden nonsense about cutting benefits, cutting teachers, cutting the most necessary part of the program as a means of balancing the books. And we eat it up. We repeat it. The reality is, there is no department, program, entitlement, or budgetary item in which waste does not exist. There is no department, program, entitlement, or budgetary item that could not benefit from drastic overhauls in technology and efficiency. So when the cuts are made (and they need to be made to everything, not just the crap people don't like), they should be made in a effective, practical manner.
The fact that they aren't should say something about the administration of that particular area of government focus, not on the legislators or people asking for cuts. Here in Texas we cut police, teachers, firefighters...while administrative staff make 1.5 - 2 times the base salary of their private-sector counterparts, plus all of the benefits of being a state employee (pension, discounted healthcare costs, etc). We cut teachers, police, and firefighters while one school district went out and bought fully loaded SUVs at 35k so that the ladies who travels between three schools for speech therapy and occupational therapy wouldn't have to drive their own cars the 15 total miles each day (about $1400 a year in mileage reimbursements if they use their own car, as opposed to the 35k for the car, plus the registration, inspection, and insurance).
So instead of acting like any program is the holy grail of programs, and instead of dancing around throwing the opposition under the bus for calling for cuts, why don't we look at the reality of the situation? The money is not being spent in the best manner, and the cuts are not being handled appropriately. Don't fall for the fear-inducing nonsense that we have to resort to extremes when spending must decrease.
And for the love of god, stop acting like the only people guilty of something you dislike is the opposition. Neither side of the coin can be held up as a paradigm of virtue.