No one really got to the meat of the deficit problem...

Obiwan: "How do you balance the entire federal budget by tweaking the discretionary funding only? You don't."

I believe this to be true. But clealry there will have to be reductions in discretionary spending. And these reductions will have to come from other places in the budget as well.... defense, health services, the "entitlements" that no politician wants to touch with a 12 foot pole. But no one really said, with specifics, what they or their "colleagues" will reduce, diminish, eliminate, cut-back, etc.