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Of course it is not. That's like if you were $500,000 in credit card debt and instead of spending $10,000 a month, you spend $9,900 instead, when you've been spending $9,500 for months. A real spending cut would mean some real cutting not increasing but claiming they're increasing spending a wee bit less than they wanted.
It's already been explained to him clearly, in the OP.
And he tried as hard as he could to ignore it.
If he didn't read that, what makes you think he's going to read yours?
Back to the subject:
Why didn't any of these terrible firings, furloughs etc. happen THIS year, when we had even less spending than in the "disastrous" year coming next year where we will get a 7% spending increase?
Of course it is not. That's like if you were $500,000 in credit card debt and instead of spending $10,000 a month, you spend $9,900 instead, when you've been spending $9,500 for months. A real spending cut would mean some real cutting not increasing but claiming they're increasing spending a wee bit less than they wanted.
No, that's not cutting spending. Seriously? What kind of logic is this?
Spending less isn't spending less?
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