In the article keep budget caps, cut entitlements: Column, Marc Short who is the president of Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce and Andy Keonig who is the senior policy advisor there as well talk about government spending and the Budget Control Act. This is aimed at people who can vote and are concerned about the government's spending. They first introduce Budget Control Act and explain how it established spending caps that limit the annual growth of domestic and other non-entitlement spending. They then say how Republicans are for an increase in defense spending, and Democrats are against spending tax payers money. But this is "nothing more than a bluster" to clear any confusion on why the government spending is the way it is. They go on to talk about how if we keep the Act then it will help save discretion money while having nothing to do with growing entitlement spending, making it grown by $1.5 trillion. They then go on to say how the caps pretty much limited the government spending the past two presidents. If we go on with out the caps then the government spending will truly be out of control. They then propose a solution which is to  trade the increase with a corresponding and immediate decrease in mandatory spending. This is a smart choice because the entitlement programs and interest payments are the two major things that are leading the nations debt. They then finish by saying if we don't do anything to positively address this problem then they will be "breaking their promise to the American people."