Putting Budget Cuts in Perspective

3 Responses to Putting Budget Cuts in Perspective

1. Quentin Colgan says:

   Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 7:10 pm

   You think this is nutty?
   Imagine it is only three pennies instead of five!
   Recently the Republicans made news with a big deal about cutting five-eighths of what Obama has proposed.
   What is even nuttier is that Wally Herger kept conflating that measly $61 billion with 37% of the federal budget at the TEA Party meeting last week.
   Totally NVTS nuts was the people buying into this poor math.
2. Post Scripts says:

   Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 11:09 pm

   I don’t recall Wally saying that Quentin. How did you hear about it?
3. Quentin Colgan says:

   Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 12:34 pm

   I heard it with my own two ears, Jack.
   Good thing I recorded the meeting. I could scarcely believe it myself. But when I played it back, well, sure enough, there it was.
   I suppose most hilarious was one time that he mentioned it, it was only a minute or two after he told us that 40 billion was only 1% of federal spending.
   If 40 billion is one percent, then 61 billion is one-and-a-half percent, correct?
   And most certainly, the cuts offered by the Republicans are evn more pathetic than the ones offered by Obama.

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