Moderators IWS Posted April 22, 2009 Moderators Posted April 22, 2009 $100 million in Obama cuts is awesomely huge, but $8 billion in wasteful pork, is minimal. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KugndY07Qoo]YouTube - Jake Tapper & AP Drill Gibbs on Meaningless Barack Obama $100 Million Budget Cut -- 4.20.09[/ame] I really didn't think anyone could make Scott McClelen look like a great White House press secretary. I was woefully mistaken. Quote One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.? ~ Thomas Sowell
Members RoyalOrleans Posted April 22, 2009 Members Posted April 22, 2009 $100 million in Obama cuts is awesomely huge, but $8 billion in wasteful pork, is minimal. Obama can get a lot of mileage with the $100 million mark because to most Americans, it sounds like a lot when compared to 3.6 trillion. They have no idea of the relativity between a Million and a Trillion. But they do understand that 100 is bigger than 3.6. I think that all news should print the numbers all the way out: Obama has charged his cabinet with reducing $100,000,000 from his $3,600,000,000,000 budget. Quote http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5I0M6PKr5HM/SrZiXevwa5I/AAAAAAAAAIo/HZMRBP1nwyI/s200/obama-socialism-attacks-capitalism.jpg It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control. This idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept. - Ron Paul
Moderators IWS Posted April 22, 2009 Author Moderators Posted April 22, 2009 Let me illustrate my point then... http://justbs.us/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=http://blog.heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/obamacuts.jpg&key=8ada54212057db03f655b985a1fac00633ee3a96bf161b1ead1e8ceb91884c46 Quote One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.? ~ Thomas Sowell
Moderators IWS Posted April 24, 2009 Author Moderators Posted April 24, 2009 Look at that... State lawmakers in budget hole By Nate Jenkins The Associated PressLINCOLN -- After crafting one of the leanest spending plans in years, Nebraska lawmakers will have to come up with another $94.5 million to balance the state?s budget following a grim revenue projection. ?You either cut spending or go to the cash reserve or raise taxes, and I?m not in favor of raising taxes,? said Sen. Lavon Heidemann of Elk Creek, chairman of the Legislature?s budget-writing Appropriations Committee. ?And you can?t raid the cash reserve too much.? That leaves spending cuts, which the committee will begin looking for on Monday. The preliminary, two-year budget the Legislature may have to pare is already bare-bones: It calls for annual spending growth of a little more than 1 percent over the next couple years, much less than the 7 percent, annual growth over the past two decades. State lawmakers in budget hole - News - Local - The Columbus Telegram - Columbus, Nebraska's Community NewspaperMy state is cutting it's budget almost as much as what the President is cutting the federal budget. Cutting spending and limiting government growth to get a balanced budget? Who could have thought that would be a good idea? Quote One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.? ~ Thomas Sowell
Members RoyalOrleans Posted April 24, 2009 Members Posted April 24, 2009 Ditto. Will tax breaks bust the state budget? - James Salzer - Atlanta Journal - Constitution I just believe somebody who earned it is going to do a better job of meeting their needs by keeping their money,? he said. ?We just have a fundamental disagreement there.? Quote http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5I0M6PKr5HM/SrZiXevwa5I/AAAAAAAAAIo/HZMRBP1nwyI/s200/obama-socialism-attacks-capitalism.jpg It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control. This idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept. - Ron Paul
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