Oh What Shall We Do About the Deficit?

Here is an article that I think puts the issue in very clear terms.

Talking about the deficit is a way of cutting morality out of the discussion. Waste! Mismanagement! Incompetence! Unaccountable earmarks! These things are noise. The actual questions are: is money to be spent on people who do not have money? And where is that money going to come from?

It seems clear that what we have decided is that the money should go to the top.  Maybe you've seen these graphics (via Hullabaloo):

If this seems OK, all right then, I guess there's nothing to talk about.