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And 40% of those 17billion in cuts are the same programs Bush proposed to cut, and those cuts were rejected by Congressional dems. You see, some things never change....
In any case, Orszag said, "$17 billion a year is not chump change by anyone's accounting."
This will be interesting...
Do your math. 17 billion of cuts compared to the outlandish 3.4 trillion budget is a drop in the bucket. As one Washington official put it, it is like taking a teaspoon of water from a full bathtub, with the faucet still running full blast.
Do your math. 17 billion of cuts compared to the outlandish 3.4 trillion budget is a drop in the bucket. As one Washington official put it, it is like taking a teaspoon of water from a full bathtub, with the faucet still running full blast.
That example is still too complicated for libs to understand. Most don't take baths or know what one is... It needs to be more simplified and on a level which they understand better. Like this...
0bama just gave you a backpack with 100# in it and demanded you climb a 1 mile high mountain (that's 5280' for all you libs that don't know). And at the same time said we will be generous and trim off a little distance to make it easier. His 17 Billion represents just over 26' of that 5280'. Now keep in mind that the evil W's backpack he gave you weighed a hefty 29# in comparison AND he demanded you carry it the whole 5280 feet. Why that ba$t@rd...
He wasn't as nice as 0bama by trimming off that 26' and giving you 3x as much to carry... My king my savior ! Quick... give me that pack !
That example is still too complicated for libs to understand. Most don't take baths or know what one is... It needs to be more simplified and on a level which they understand better. Like this...
0bama just gave you a backpack with 100# in it and demanded you climb a 1 mile high mountain (that's 5280' for all you libs that don't know). And at the same time said we will be generous and trim off a little distance to make it easier. His 17 Billion represents just over 26' of that 5280'. Now keep in mind that the evil W's backpack he gave you weighed a hefty 29# in comparison AND he demanded you carry it the whole 5280 feet. Why that ba$t@rd...
He wasn't as nice as 0bama by trimming off that 26' and giving you 3x as much to carry... My king my savior ! Quick... give me that pack !
What an interesting attempt at responding to the topic at hand.
Do your math. 17 billion of cuts compared to the outlandish 3.4 trillion budget is a drop in the bucket. As one Washington official put it, it is like taking a teaspoon of water from a full bathtub, with the faucet still running full blast.
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Congressional Republicans immediately denounced the cuts as insufficient when some details of them emerged yesterday. The criticism drew a retort this morning from White House budget director Peter Orszag, who went on MSNBC to stress that the cuts are just a start on the long-term work of curbing government spending, notably the growth of the Medicare and Medicaid health care programs.
I think Obama should go bipartisan, listen to the republicans, and stop trying to trim billions of dollars from the budget (which amounts to more than the pork barrel spending republicans were screaming about). That would be, by GOP definition, fiscally conservative thing to do.
I think it's funny that all of the sudden republicans are pretending to be fiscally conservative.
Leave Republicans out of this for the moment. Do you Think this is fiscally responsible?
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