DeMint Says Americans Will Need to Sacrifice Nothing to Cut the Deficit

There is no way you can cut the deficit without sacrifices. What Americans voted for in the midterms was two years of campaigning. Republicans made clear that little of their agenda will happen unless Obama is out of office. The next two years will be republican posturing, manipulation, fear mongering. Just more of the same.

Rand Paul can't name a specific cut he would make:

"Give me one specific cut, Senator-elect," This Week anchor Christiane Amanpour asked Paul in an exclusive interview Sunday morning.

"All across the board," Paul said.

"But you can't just keep saying all across the board," Amanpour pressed.

"No, I can," Paul replied. "I'm going to look at every program, every program." He said he would freeze federal hiring and, perhaps, reduce the number of federal employees by 10% along with the remaining government employees' wages by 10%. ABC

Reducing our debt is a long time coming, but republicans aren't getting real yet. That's because they're campaigning for 2012.

Rand Paul on This Week:

As Mike Pence waits on the Lord for an answer as to whether he should run for president (that's what he said), he has no answers on cutting the debt either. Pence goes up against David Stockman, Reagan's former budget director, who has said the republicans should be ashamed: