well, we have to be sure there is defense spending in there because we have to have something to make the republicans look at a more balanced approach, and here is the thing well, shouldn t medicare be in there to make democrats have a balanced approach? yes, i have been one of the democrats to say we have to look at entitlement reform, but there is one thing that is telling warren buffett, we will not buy his prescription drugs and converting it into a voucher program. we can do things to preserve them, and protect the beneficiaries and the benefits without gutting them, and that is the case. if we balanced approach, we can preserve the prom gragrad get them to where we can prolong them, and we cannot keep pushing public money to big oil and don t want to address the other issues. senator thune, september 28th, 2009 was an important date and debate which was the t.a.r.p. bailout of the banks. s