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Careful, Conservative. You're getting dangerously close to my own point of view.
Can I explain that 3.8 trillion dollars? Sure. It's the result of decades of out of control government growth, much of which has happened during the past five or six years.
I've got a solution, too. It's quite simple, really:
No more giving away money, not to foreign powers, not to corporations, not to individuals, not to anyone. End the war on drugs, the war on poverty, and the war on terror. Fund the military, but let's not spend as much as the rest of the world combined. In short, let's quit wasting money. Spend what is saved upgrading our infrastructure, funding research, but not subsidizing plants, not even "green" ones. There is private venture capital for that, after all.
There really isn't a lot of difference between a Conservative and a Libertarian when it comes to fiscal responsibility.
The problem with the budgeting process is it is a baseline budget which means that if a department spends the money that is the baseline which means they get more money the next year. There never is any incentive to save. Budgets are yearly and deficits are yearly. Obama has yet to have a deficit under a trillion dollars. Bush had one deficit over a trillion dollars in 8 years.