Damn you really don't realize how much egg you have on your face?
The economy needs to grow at least 2% every year just to stay even. If we're $325B down now from 2007 levels then we're realistically down close to half trillion in revenues from where we would be if there had been no great recession. Which is exactly what everyone who looks at this is saying.
Eliminate that (and factor in that in the Bush era both Iraq and Afghanistan where "off budget" i.e., not counted in the official budget numbers, and when Obama took office he added them back into the budget right away) and we are back to Bush era deficit levels.
Get rid of the Bush era tax cuts and we will balance the budget in 5-10 years.
