BWP: That was not MY chart. Simply the easiest I could find with a quick Google search. Many other charts are out there and they are in basic agreement. (I should have mentioned where I got it, but now I forget, and it’s not important. It was not from some MSNBC or Faux News report.)

Not sure what you mean by state buy outs, but they probably are not all that important in the big picture. The chart shows where the bulk of the money goes and that's where the bulk of cuts must come from. This problem is so big a onetime cut of a billion here or there won’t make much of a dent. We need to be thinking multiple billions of cuts, and to do that we have to look at where the big expenditures are.