No one will tolerate the cuts necessary to balance the budget, or even get close. The TEA party cabal is not willing to compromise their Medicare Part D entitlement much less the limitation of their primary care. This all talk, and there will be no changes. Pols have to get elected, which means earmarks have to continue and favor have to be repaid. Look back at news reports from the 1980s and you will see exactly the same rhetoric. Everything new is old, again.