What would you trim from federal budget? #tellusatoday

We asked our followers on Twitter how they would stop runaway government spending. Comments are edited for clarity and grammar:

Cut military budget by half. We'd still be outspending the world. Return all troops and weapons to our borders.

— @FluxRostrum

Mandated budget balancing with a tax surcharge on all until the federal books are balanced.

— @tjldgibb

How about cutting all House and Senate pay for starters, and then cutting all loopholes for Big Oil, investors and big banks?

— @RSN4LIFE

Cut the subsidies for inefficient, hazardous and environmentally unsustainable industries, not the programs that help people.

— @IvetaCherneva

Cut Social Security for folks being born today.

— @daniellenunez81

What's an entitlement? I've been paying 30-plus years to earn benefits.

— @cmal1102

If we rely on government spending to drive the economy, we will find ourselves in that ditch that Obama talked about!

— @tab91787

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