Highly Within Reach

Ali Velshi (CNN's business reported) seems like a pretty decent fellow and his reporting is generally solid. But when he articulated the other night that there isn't any more "low hanging fruit" that we can readily cut from the federal budget, I really wanted to throw something at the TV. There is A LOT of low hanging fruit still left. Foreign aid to corrosive and hostile governments, agricultural welfare, waste and duplication in the Department of Homeland Security, unnecessary foreign military bases, insane retirement packages for federal employees (a former co-worker of mine's husband recently retied at age 47!!!!!), etc., etc. - these are ALL things that at least need to be looked at, for Christ...............................................................................................And even on the tax expenditure side. The fact that multimillionaires can apparently STILL deduct the mortgage interest on their frigging vacation homes is abominable. The way that I see it here, there is a lot that we can still do to lower the deficit and an intelligent fellow like Velshi clearly should have known that.