While the President, the Democrats and the Republicans are all busy patting themselves on the back for what Harry Reid from the floor of the Senate has called the “an historic amount of cuts” on the agreed federal budget for the remainder of 2011 that avoided a government shutdown, the real story is an historic boondoggle and scam of epic proportions. When you look at the numbers and see what the cadre of elected criminals in Washington cooked up to feed to the public, there isn’t any cutting of the total amount of actual spending. It is simply smoke and mirrors and the supposed cuts are rendered meaningless by the unprecedented massive increases in spending over the last 2 years.
Let’s have a look at the real numbers:
The deal announced by Senator Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner is said to have cut some $38.5 billion from what had been budgeted for fiscal year 2010 but, the joint statement released by Boehner and Reid is claiming that the cuts are $78.5 billion below what President Obama originally proposed for 2011. The actual number of on paper (even these are not real as you will see in a moment) cuts are at $38.5 billion. To claim that $78 billion had been cut is simply delusional. You can’t cut $78.5 billion from a proposed budget and in any sense of the word call that a cut. A proposal is just that, a proposal. It is not what actually gets implemented and it would be like me telling my wife, I propose we spend $10,000 on vacation this year and go on an extravagant European holiday, and then she proposes we spend $3,000 and go to the Grand Canyon instead. We then cannot in reality tell people we cut $7,000 from our vacation budget this year because that would be a lie. Therefore, the joint statement released by Reid and Boehner on the so-called “historic budget cuts” is a lie.
Further analysis of the 2011 budget shows that the increase in spending over last year alone is $219.9 billion, already eclipsing the supposed savings by $181.4 billion. Looking another year back to 2009 we see that $443.6 billion more was spent in 2010 than in 2009 for a grand total of $662.7 billion more in expenditures by the federal government from 2009 to the recently agreed upon budget for 2011. And we are supposed to be happy about $38.5 billion in cuts? They are meaningless.
When you increase your spending by $662.7 billion over 2 years and then claim you have done something historic by cutting $38.5 billion you are doing little else than promoting propaganda. Call it what you want, but in reality, once again, our elected officials have lied to us in epic proportions. The President and both Democrats and Republicans have all claimed victory on this boondoggle, that should have been the first clue that in reality, there was no victory at all.
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