50 Dead-Simple Ways For The US To Cut Spending : Politics aside, it’s hard to dispute Congress’ explosive spending growth on both the “discretionary” (educatation, defense, etc.), and “mandatory” (new health care entitlement, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) sides of the budget ledger — not to mention their ad-hoc “emergency” spending (bailouts, ‘stimulus,’ war funding supplementals, etc.).

A must-read for any member of Congress unable to think of even ONE way to cut spending: the Business Insider’s top 50 ways to cut federal spending. Thanks BI for making it as easy for us to write this post as it is for Congress to over-spend taxpayers’ money!