Oops! Rick Perry wants to cut $5 trillion -- from $3.7 trillion budget

nydailynews.com ^ | 12/17/2011 | NINA MANDELL

[TBBT]

Slip is just latest of many in Texas governor's run for the Presidency

Rick Perry made another slip on Saturday when he pledged to cut a whopping $5 trillion from President Barack Obama's proposed budget - a number which is $1.3 million higher than Obama's total budget, CBS News reported.

[cripplecreek]

Yeah, our spending needs to be more than just trimmed. It needs to be seriously and permanently circumcised.

[cripplecreek]

You might notice that the media never finds similar “gaffes” coming from the democrats.

Curious how that works.

[Never on my watch]

Looks like the idiot writer and editor could use a math lesson. 1.3 million?

Seriously... Where are the editors?

[P-Marlowe]

a number which is $1.3 million higher than Obama's total budget,

People who criticize other people's math skills should try not to be off by a factor of 1,000,000 themselves.

[txhurl]

They’re coming up short with new ways to paint a guy who plays Beethoven at home to relax as ‘stupid’.

I hope Perry passes a piano somewhere in his Iowa stops this month.

[italianquaker]

I hope he remembers to fund the corpsemen

[facedown]

“Perry was referring to what he has calculated to be the cumulative difference over seven fiscal years between his budget plan and President Obama’s, Katherine Cesinger, a spokeswoman for the campaign said after the event. It would be accomplished through spending cuts, she said.”

http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/12/17/rick-perry-says-hes-going-cut-obama%E2%80%99s-5-trillion-budget-problem-is-its-only-3-7-trillion/

[garjog]

It is surprising to see someone who has been in executive public office for so long make mistakes like this.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Whoever wins the nomination is going to have to win back all the voters Perry has turned off to the Republican Party by making us look bad with his embarrassing gaffes.

Thanks Perry!

[mylife]

I thought the Texas rube was “No count”

I don’t understand why they are so fixated with him. /s

[txhurl]

Why are people so intimidated by a 10%er?

[gogogodzilla]

Good! That’ll be 1.3 trillion that can be used to pay down the debt.

Do that for 15 years and our combined debt is eliminated.

:-P

[ravenwolf]

You bet, it is a good thing that the news media is letting us know what is going on, after hearing this you can bet i will vote for Obama.

[MaxMax]

Repub: Cut five trillion over ten years
Dem: Ok, we'll let you cut Five if we can spend Ten
Repub: Well by golly we have a deal, see how bipartisan we are

[mylife]

Amazing isn’t it?

[HereInTheHeartland]

Ok with me...

[txhurl]

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.

[gitmo]

If Washington cuts 5 Trillion from a 3.7 Trillion budget, we’ll only spend 4 trillion more that year than the previous. Using WashMath.

[mylife]

I’ll say this for Perry, He ain’t a quitter.

Newtster took the weekend off didn’t he?

[ravenwolf]

Looks like the idiot writer and editor could use a math lesson. 1.3 million?

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Rick Perry made another slip on Saturday when he pledged to cut a whopping $5 trillion from President Barack Obama’s proposed budget - a number which is $1.3 million higher than Obama’s total budget, CBS News reported.

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Yeah, if they can make a slip like that you would think that they might apologize to Rick Perry.