d $6 trillion. So that's the US budget. But we don't take in that much in taxes. So about 1.2 trillion of it is borrowing. So if you just round off, what is 1 trillion of 6 trillion? About 17%, right? So no, cutting 7 or 8% isn't going to get you close. You have to cut more like 17% of everything. Do you think there's any chance we would cut 17% off the budget of everything? And again, if we don't, that means that some budgets are going to get it twice as hard. Or the other budgets would be twice as hard. And not twice, you know, I'm exaggerating, but that's what it would look like.

And then I asked myself, how is that even possible? So then I asked ChatGPT to come up with its own budget, to tell me what to cut in each of the current budget categories to get to a balanced budget. And I'll tell you what ChatGPT says, just to give you an idea how... oh, maybe I won't have to look it up. But the answer is way more horrifying. You would have to make cuts in various things about 25%. So probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 17 to 25% you'd have to take off of every budget. Do you think they're going to cut the military by 17 to 25%? Do you think Social Security is going to get cut by... no, no, there isn't any way. So if there's no way to do it, are we doomed?

And it was really hard to get even ChatGPT to give me a suggested budget which we could survive. Survival. I'm not even talking about optimizing. I'm not talking about the best of several plans. I tried to get ChatGPT to give me any estimate where we could survive, and it fought me just like humans do. That's why Ken