Here Are Some Easy Ways to Cut Spending

Most every, if not every elected official in the executive and legislative branches have a Chief of Staff.  If these officers would do their jobs, as they were hired to do, part of those job descriptions would be such that each one of them would serve as the chief of his or her staff, as Jack Kennedy was the last President to do so.  Such a personnel policy would save upwards of $100 million a year.  I once heard that that is next to nothing to the Senate Finance Committee, but it's a buttload of money to most of us.  And those staffs, without their chiefs of, would consist only of clerical/communicative administrative assistants, which were once called and paid as secretaries, bookkeepers, typists, receptionists and clerks, of varying kinds, like file and mail.  Congressional representatives would have no legislative directors, no advisers, no counsels, general or otherwise.  The President's advisers would be the principle officers in each of the executive departments, as mandated by Article 2, Section 2.  And there should be fewer of those executive departments than currently exist.  And for actually doing the work for which they were elected and appointed to do, these executives and legislators should be paid more than their current salaries, as they would actually be earning them.  And you can figure that without all of these nameless staffers to do the work, there would be a whole lot less work done, so that we wouldn't be constantly saddled with such monstrous, megamaniacal masterworks as The New Deal, The Great Society and The Fundamental Transformation, better known to the dumb masses as Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid and Obamacare. 
In recently researching my newly redistricted Congresswoman, I was looking at her committee assignments.  On one of the committee's web page is listed the committee staff, which included a director, a deputy director, several counsels of varying ranks and titles and several members of the professional staff, which are, I'd suppose, the probably necessary clerical workers.   Of course, they're not necessary, as all business of Congress should be conducted by the individual and the committee of the whole. 
I can only assume that all Congressional committees have such or similar staffs.  Until we can eliminate the long standing seniority superiority/committee construct of Congress, we can immediately eliminate all of these fancy titled positions.  As for the people laid-off from these unaccountable occupations, those with law licenses will not be eligible for unemployment benefits, because as licensed lawyers, each one of them is employed automatically and immediately by simply 'hanging out his or her shingle'.
Totally eliminating the Department of Education would lay-off about 5000 employees, while saving the taxpayers close to a hundred billion dollars annually.  While not allowing these employees to ever hold any unelected governmental job other than classroom teacher, they would be eligible for up to nine months of unemployment benefits.  The sub-cabinet level Small Business Administration would be tasked to make matching loans to any of these 'educators'  making individual and group investments in start-ups of new, private, accredited schools.
These aren't, on their own and by themselves, the ways and means to the fiscal sanity of balanced budgets and perpetual prosperity, but they're a start.