As you already know, the Congressional deficit-reduction “supercommittee” failed to find a paltry $1.2 trillion dollars worth of trimmable fat in the Federal budget over the next ten years. Given that you could confiscate all corporate profits each year in America and still only cover six months of government spending, we’re obviously living way, way beyond our means, and it’s hard for a lot of us to believe that even these seasoned professional money-sluicers really couldn’t agree on any adipose tissue to excise. ($1.2 trillion over ten years doesn’t even begin to solve the problem, of course, and the real fact of the matter is that this once-great nation is now completely, utterly screwed — but it would at least have been a nice gesture.)
Well, here’s game-show host Chuck Woollery to show us just how easy it can be.