"In the short run, in order to provide for those..."

"In the short run, in order to provide for those we have taught to be dependent, such programs could survive.  My own suggestion is to fund this transition period by scaling back our unsustainable overseas commitments, saving hundreds of billions from the nearly one trillion dollars our empire is costing us every year, and in the process streamlining our overstretched military and making it more efficient and effective.  That is the only place where we can easily save money, applying some of the savings to these domestic programs and the rest to debt reduction." -Page 83 of The Revolution, A Manifesto