Posted on 04/01/2011 1:57:28 AM PDT by Scanian
If you propose stiff budget cuts and don't get called "heartless," does it re ally count?
Republicans passed an unheard-of $61 billion in budget cuts a few weeks ago, and not only have lived to tell the tale, but have emerged without a scratch. They piled all of them on one slice of the budget (nonsecurity discretionary spending) over a compressed period (half of the remaining fiscal year), magnifying their impact and opening themselves to avenues of attack so obvious that the average College Democrat could write the campaign plan.
The usual liberal outfits raised the usual alarms. "House Bill Means Fewer Children in Head Start, Less Help for Students to Attend College, Less Job Training, and Less Funding for Clean Water" warned the headline of a report of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. The cut in nonsecurity domestic spending for the remainder of fiscal year 2011, it noted in astonishment, was nearly 25 percent.
For some specific categories of spending it reached higher: minus 38.5 percent for agriculture, rural development and the Food and Drug Administration, and minus 36.5 percent for transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
There's a word for such cuts: "impossible." There's a word for people who would undertake such cuts: "suicidal." And yet White House and Senate Democrats have been backpedaling for weeks
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Huh... This is an interesting take.
They need to cut out one trillion in spending. This is only 6% of that goal.
61 Billion is not enough... and why it’s quiet. Anyone with half a brain knows this.
It’s just a drop in the bucket.
To me, even Rand Paul’s plan isn’t severe enough.
We need to educate the public that present day entitlement payments MUST be cut NOW or we are on the road to Zimbabwe.
And there’s still no budget signed.
Which means there’s still time to make more cuts!
The Internet and talk radio seems to be the only way right now. Most of the Republicans just sit there silently and the media and the press are lap dogs to the Obama administration.
I’m amazed at how Obama started a war (how the hell can we afford 3 wars) while on vacation with his family in Brazil! Obama did not even consult the congress, and most of the congress does not have much to say about it. Do we live in a dictatorship and the legislative branch bows to the Executive branch? It’s almost as if someone else stated the war and Obama got the notes and then decided to update everyone else on it. Notice by the way it’s the first time we started a war where the President was not even in the Oval office. If Bush did that, then the media would be screaming bloody murder.
The cuts proposed don’t even begin to put a dimple in the deficit added in the past year alone, let alone the accumulated deficit.
The GOP with the weeping, pink-tie wearing Boehner at the helm, has completely let down those that put a majority in the House last November.
We should be proposing cuts of 300 billion and then compromising it down to 200 or 150. Then next year doing the same thing, on and on.
Bbbbbbut there IS NO INFLATION per the G!
Gas and food don’t count!
Not funding ‘’entitlements’’ is what will nail Wash. Then there’s the highway ‘’fund’’, the Airport and airways fund the wildlife fund, all of these have specific taxes for them, but much of the money had been used for something else.
Are these real cuts or just reductions to the increases in spending?
In February of 2009 the Democrats passed an $800 Billion permanent Budget Baseline increase they called a “Stimulus Program”.
They did so without a single Congressional Republican Vote.
Now, the reduction of 8% that spending increase is called extreme by Democrats, and unheard of by pundits like Lowry (btw, who I generally like)
Meanwhile, Federal Employment now exceeds the total number employed in Manufacturing, Farming, and Construction - COMBINED
If cutting a 1.8 trillion deficit by 60 billion is the best we can do - we cannot be saved.
In February of 2009 the Democrats passed an $800 Billion permanent Budget Baseline increase they called a “Stimulus Program”.
They did so without a single Congressional Republican Vote.
Now, the reduction of 8% that spending increase is called extreme by Democrats, and unheard of by pundits like Lowry (btw, who I generally like)
Meanwhile, Federal Employment now exceeds the total number employed in Manufacturing, Farming, and Construction - COMBINED
If cutting a 1.8 trillion deficit by 60 billion is the best we can do - we cannot be saved.
Current budget work is just tinkering on what should have been the Dem budget.
The 2012 budget will really be the one to watch.
We need a genuine, kickass government shutdown to jar this country into a grim reality check.
Start refering to $3-trillion as “three-thousand-billion-dollars”. Then the notion of “slashing” 30-billion from 3,000-billion becomes absurd.
Reframe it even more into “kitchen table terms”. Your household income is $3,000 a month. This month you have $4,700 in expenses. Does anyone with a brain think reducing this month’s expenses by $30 means anything? Only a fool would be proud of himself for reining in expenses in this manner.
I don’t think so.
The takers need to do without their checks for a month or two to get a dose of what will happen PERMANENTLY if we don’t act.
The writing has been on the wall for a long time. Cut drastically or head for third world status.
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