in some budget expert for the government and asked how much would we need to cut the budget to balance it. Now that's not paying down the deficit, that's not paying down the 35 trillion. It's just what would it take to not make it more. How much would you have to cut? How many of you know the answer to that? How much would you have to cut the current budget to get it in balance? Because if you said, well, one or two percent, then I'd say, oh, we don't have that big a problem, right?

So the expert said 7 or 8%. Do you think there's any human way that our current government could cut our budget by 7 or 8%? No, no, because you'd have to cut everything. And if you didn't cut everything, it gets worse. Because if you said, oh, we're not going to cut this one section, we're not going to cut this one, well then you're talking about maybe 15% cuts to other places. Do you think we could cut any part of the whole budget 15% with the current government in the current situation? No, not a chance. Because cutting gets you unelected. Pushing the can down the field gets you elected, because they know they always get reelected.

So I asked ChatGPT to give me a little sanity check on it. And here's just some numbers just to hold in your head when you're talking about the budget. Just a few numbers to keep in your head so you feel like you're smart. First of all, our budget every year is aroun