Posted on 04/10/2011 9:12:27 AM PDT by Qbert
Senior Advisor to the President David Plouffe conceded this morning that some of the cuts the White House agreed to in order to avoid a government shutdown were draconian. In an interview on "This Week" with anchor Christiane Amanpour, he called the cuts both "draconian" and "historic."
"The Senate majority called what the Speaker was asking for, just in February," Amanpour said, "he called it 'draconian.'" She pointed out the cuts were now being called historic. "I mean, which is it? Is it draconian yesterday and historic today?" Amanpour pressed.
"Well," Plouffe replied, "some of the cuts were draconian. Because it's not just the number, it's what composes the number."
"So in this budget deal, the President, Senator Reid, you know we protected medical research, community health centers, kids in Head Start. We were not going to sign off on a deal that cut those things," Plouffe said. "The President was comfortable with the composition of this deal that, again, there were some tough cuts in there…but in these fiscal times, everyone is going to have to make tough decisions. So it was a historic deal for the American people."
Plouffe insisted the budget that the White House, the Senate and House agreed to preserved the country's ability to invest in and "win the future."
Plouffe began in his position as senior advisor to the president in January of this year.
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Draconian would be to only finance what the Constitution calls for. We could get the debt paid off in a year or two - considering the market would go wild and revenue would flood the public treasury - if we only paid for the military and we made those dip weed congressmen get rid of staff and only pay them a living stipend.
OK, so WHAT was cut?? I only know of the figure, approx. 39billion. But, where did those “cuts” take place?
Kind of like a Histosaurus. And likely headed for extinction. There's a giant asteroid inbound with the words "time to pay the bill" written on it.
The needed reduction in spending didn't happen. Either QE2 ends in June and the market collapses all at once, or we get QE3 and the economy collapses under the weight of worthless FRNs.
I have my doubts that there will be elections in 2012.
“OK, so WHAT was cut?? I only know of the figure, approx. 39billion. But, where did those “cuts” take place?”
Good question.
Then let the Democrats pay for all of them . . . Warren and Billy Boy can pony up first . . . oh and Soros too
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