Need a spending freeze. If they agree to cut spending it would be the old bullshit of “the increase was going to be 9%, now it’s only 8% so we saved money”. The country can’t afford bullshit accounting shell game.Always easy to think that somebody else is going to carry the dead weight,.. How about we start by raising everyone's taxes by 1% and cutting all spending by 1%,.. Equal pain across the board.