Last week we were graced with radical protests by a fringe group of Republicans who were demanding that we, in not so many words, cut government spending. Sure a lot of them wanted a revolution, or the murder of certain members of Congress, or even the president himself; but for the most part they pretended to want a more fiscally responsible government. Where they've been the last 8 years is altogether baffling as well. Nevertheless, when the president announced yesterday that he wanted some agencies to trim a total of $100 million from their budgets, the right wing lit up that $100 million in cuts was nothing compared to our massive debt. Fox News ran with the internet web page title that Obama wanted to cut the budget 1/35,000th. From there the right wing extremists mocked the notion of agency budget cuts.
Agreeably so, $100 million isn't that much as the president already said. When you consider $100 million isn't even half of what fiscally responsible pork-buster Sarah Palin gets in Alaska, the president's budget cuts don't look too shabby. Be that as it may, if President Obama trims $100 million from his budget that means he cut 100 million times more from the budget than George Bush ever did.
There's really no sense in letting numbers stand in the way of a perfectly good right wing peter bumping contest.
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