No, it wasn't a "real" cut. It's a fraud.
The 2010 Budget Expenditure is estimated at $3.552 Trillion dollars.
The 2011 Budget deal is estimated at $3.69 Trillion or $3.773 Trillion depending on whose source you use.
Either way, we're spending more under the deal brokered by our brave Boehner, than we did the last year.
Only a fool would say that's a "cut."
Sources: 2010 Fiscal Budget Wikipedia; http://goo.gl/6GzV
2011 Budget: The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/01/us/budget.html
You are right on the big numbers, but there still are some real ‘cuts’ in that specific programs were cut or eliminated vs what was spent in 2010. Here is HotAir’s take:
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/04/12/two-obamacare-programs-four-czars-eliminated-in-budget-cuts/
About $16b in real cuts and $22b in smoke and mirrors reductions. I made this comment on them:
Small potatoes indeed. We have a $3.8 trillion budget, bloated with hundreds of billions in wasteful add-ons put in by Pelosi and Reid and Obama, ready to explode further when Obamacare adds more hundreds of billions in full swing, and we could only get about $16 billion of it taken out?
This is like removing one gin-soaked olive from one martini for an alcoholic who is on a dozen-martinis-a-night bender.