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Thursday, May 7, 2009

 

.005 solution.

ford exploder

 

It is OK now to pass the budget since they are cutting $17,000,000,000 from $3,400,000,000,000, WOW PUPPETOTUSPOS makes it all better now.

Let's say you go to the used car dealership and you offer $10K for a used Ford Expolder,  the used car salesman says:

"I'll give you a .005 discount take it or leave it!"

What a deal! I save $50! I'll take it thank you very much!

Why don't they cut the the billions for ACORN?  WTH does ACORN do?  Investing in nutz, I believe, is not very prudent or fiscally responsible.


Comments:
I think my math is right. It leaves 3,873,000,000,000.00 still in the budget, remember a trillion is 1,000 billion, $3.4 trillion is 3,400 billion dollars!

That's $11,333 per every man woman and child in the USAmerica.
But ACORN has been apparently militarized/deputized by delegating the task of GPS-ing all our front doors, their funds can't be cut.
I forgot. Those <snip>.
It seems I understated the miserable attempt of PUPPETOTUSPOS to justify this pile of crApola. Real tough stuff according to PUPPETOTUSPOS.   You are getting sleepy, very sleepy, you are drifting into a deep, deep, deep, sleep, now I want you to forget I am spending trillions of your dollars to support my fascist state of socialism, now dance like a worker chicken!

Yahoo reprint of AP story:

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama asked Congress on Thursday to eliminate or trim 121 federal programs for a savings of $17 billion in the coming budget year. Many of the proposed cuts have already been rejected by Obama's allies in Congress, including some programs that his predecessor, President George W. Bush, repeatedly sought to end.

Despite the relatively modest nature of the cuts, , "none of this will be easy" amid the continuing deep economic slump, Obama said.

The proposed cuts amount to less than one-half of 1 percent of the total $3.4 trillion federal budget outline approved last week by the Democratic-run Congress.

Republicans immediately denounced his proposed reductions as too small. "The resulting savings are relatively minor compared with the government's fiscal woes," said House Republican Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.

Answering criticism that his cuts were but a drop in a multi-trillion-dollar spending bucket, Obama said: "Some of the cuts we're putting forward today are more painful than others. Some are larger than others. In fact a few of the programs we eliminate will produce less than a million dollars in savings. Outside of Washington, that's still a lot of money."

Obama said that Americans are tightening their belts in these difficult times and want to know if Washington "is prepared to act with the same sense of responsibility."

"I believe we can and must do exactly that," Obama said in a statement he delivered before cameras at the White House.

The spending cuts for the budget year that begins Oct. 1 were detailed in a supplement to the broader 2010 budget outline that the president proposed in February and which Congress has already acted on.

The new proposals are not in the form of legislation.

White House budget director Peter Orszag said the president's plan for program cuts is just a start and that a lot more needs to be done to dig the government out of its fiscal hole, especially curbing the growth of the Medicare and Medicaid health care programs for the elderly and the poor.

"But $17 billion a year is not chump change by anyone's accounting," he said.

Those savings are far exceeded by a 2 1/2-inch thick volume detailing Obama's generous increases for domestic programs. And instead of devoting the savings to defray record deficits, the White House is funneling them back into other programs.

Most of the major elements of Obama's budget for next year were released in February. Additional details, including an increase in fees on airline travel to fund airport security programs, come next week.

The roster of cuts won't be easy for Congress to swallow. Lawmakers from the potent California, New York and Florida delegations are sure to fight the elimination of the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, which gives money to states to help defray the cost of incarcerating illegal immigrants who commit crimes. President George W. Bush tried and failed to kill the $400 million program several times.

Obama is also claiming savings from eliminating a host of accounts typically earmarked by members of Congress such as a $10 million West Virginia highway project obtained by Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., and $15 million obtained by Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., for diesel emissions reduction grants.

Obama is also proposing $145 million in savings from a clean water program administered by the Environmental Protection Agency which bankrolled 301 earmarks this year.

But Obama is not actually proposing to kill thousands of earmarks funded in the $410 billion catchall spending bill passed in March.

In fact, some of the cuts, like terminating production of C-17 cargo aircraft and phasing out direct payments to farmers with sales exceeding $500,000 annually, have already been rejected by Obama's allies in Congress. A key House panel is proposing adding $2.2 billion for 8 C-17s to Obama's pending war request, while a congressional budget plan passed last week protects the farm payments targeted by Obama.

About half the budget savings would come from an effort by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to curb defense programs, including ending production of the F-22 fighter and killing a much-maligned replacement helicopter fleet for the president that's way over budget.

Obama also is fleshing out the details of the $1.3 trillion portion of the budget that he requested Congress pass through appropriations bills for the upcoming budget year.

The administration is also proposing curbing subsidies for crop insurance to save $5.2 billion over 10 years and killing a $25 million program that funds the relocation of rail lines.

And just as Congress is beginning work on a new war bill to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into the fall, Obama is sending up a $130 billion request to fund them next year. That figure may not be adequate considering the increase in the tempo of operations in Afghanistan.

Obama has said repeatedly his administration will go through the budget "line by line" to eliminate waste. But the resulting savings are relatively minor compared with the government's fiscal woes, especially a deficit that's likely to exceed $1.5 trillion this year, the latest installment in a national debt now at about $10.7 trillion.

Many of the cuts mirror those proposed previously by Bush but largely rejected by Congresses controlled by both Republicans and Democrats. In fact, Democrats already have pared about $10 billion from Obama's appropriations requests in passing the $3.4 trillion congressional budget plan last month.

In a preview, administration officials named a few examples Thursday which mostly represented easy-to-pluck targets, like ending the Education Department's attache in Paris, at a savings of $632,000 a year. Another example: the obsolete LORAN-C marine navigation system, which still gets $35 million a year despite being made obsolete by the satellite-based Global Positioning System.
How much are they going to raise the debt ceiling like Clinton did to "cut the deficit in half" in however many years he said? Way too much pea under the shell sleight of hand. Looks pretty, sound bites good, must be good, whaddaya think?
And to top it off, the money "saved" will just be funneled to supplement other programs. WOOHOO!
The symbolic one is so full SH$$ its affecting everyone. Someone at work the other day they saw a speckeled spot in the middle of his forehead, and I thouight to myself how can this be, he's so full of SH$$past his ears that this had to be trick photography. Didn't ha say he inhereted a trillion dollar deficiet from his predesessor. Geez, did he forget the deficiet that ( Bill under the table Clinton) left everyone else with a budget deficiet because of his raised ceiling also...!
    The symbolic one and this parasite of a governor in NJ are two peas in a pod... These two are the #1 & 2 in the Jackass-Lemon club.....!!!!!
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