And here’s the note: “One final thought to illustrate the absurdity of our baseline, and I’ll leave you alone. If Speaker Boehner —” now, listen to me very carefully, folks “— if Speaker Boehner were to propose that we simply freeze all government spending immediately, including mandatory and discretionary, meaning including the entitlements, if we just freeze everything and spend no more this year than we spent last year, the Congressional Budget Office would score that as a nine and a half trillion-dollar cut.”
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Question: Is the $1.5 trillion the deems say will be cut deducted from the $9.5 trillion — meaning there will be a $8 trillion increase rather than the $9.5 trillion increase? AND while increasing spending by trillions, cutting defense spending by 50 percent? AND cutting medicare to those who contribute while maintaining medicaid for those who contribute nothing? Are the repubs really going to go along with the dems on this while telling us it’s the best they could do?