In a move that correctly is being denounced and derided, President Obama in a meeting with his current cabinet wants them to come up with "savings" equalling $100,000,000 in savings. . .in an over $3,500,000,000,000 budget!
Heh! Heh! HEH! Ha! Ha! Ha! HA! HA! HA!
Excuse me while I recover from the laughter over such a insipid move by our amateur president.
First of all, I want to know how President Obama asks this with a straight face? Even the linked article in The New York Times is mocking this move.
The percentage of budget savings/cuts is. . . 0.0025%!
Or another way to look at it is this.
Say that you like to get your morning cup of java at Starbucks. Or Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. Caribou Coffee. As one knows, a large cup of java could easily go over two bucks. Trying to save a little money, you decide to stop going to the expensive joint and going to, say McDonald's. Now they have similar, premium joe and for less money.
That is the slight of hand we are seeing here.
Instead of buying coffee out, the same person could save a lot of money by making the coffee at home and taking it for the road.
But, this Obama administration initiative is of the slight of hand variety.
Lets see where the administration is going to save a $100,000,000 and a $100,000,000 there.
Take the Agriculture Department.
Why, they are going to root out about $16,000,000 a year by preventing fraud in the farm subsidy program.
It is something that has been proposed, tried and failed. At best, this is window dressing when said program is many time more than the proposed $16,000,000 is savings.
Hey, here is a brainstorm from the Homeland Security department.
If they buy office supply items in bulk, guess what? They can save $52,000,000 over five years.
What a brainstorm!
It is what is done everyday in the private sector. Yet the government has not caught on to that little bit of office management?
Unreal!
But then there is the White House Press Flak, Big Bobby Gibbs trying to make this savings sound like some big deal. Right!
But, never fear.
President Obama is proposing $2,000,000,000,000 in budget savings over 10 years.
And, while the rest of the federal government is going to get a hormone shot of money to all kinds of programs, guess the one area of the government that they will find real savings?
The Defense Department, of course.
When all else fails for a left-leaning administration, take the knife to the defense budget. Oh, while we are fighting a two-front war against Islamofacist terror.
The fact that President Obama used this meeting with his cabinet to promote this insipid attempt of "savings" shows that he has no serious intent to curb government whatsoever. Except in the dreaded Defense budget.
The embarrassment that is the Obama savings initiative shows that it would be good President Obama had an A-team of underlings and not a B-team and a bunch of people who could not even pay their taxes.
4 comments:
well of course repubs laugh. They laugh out of jealousy, Obama knows exactly what he's doing to fix the economy. See, that is the Democrat way, it won't happen over night but soon you will see the debt decrease and a surplus will start to raise her pretty head. Just like the much loved and missed Clinton years! Don't fear repubs, Obama is on the right track!
OT, but something to really laugh about - it looks like Tedisco's toast in the NY-20 special held last month:
"We lost the special election in New York. It's gone," said former Virginia Rep. Thomas M. Davis III, a veteran election vote-counter and former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Finally, a repub with the good sense to admit an obvious loss. Such honesty and integrity is rare in repubs.
Obama is just giving lip service. He spends more money than any president ever has so he has to cover up by giving more fluffy speeches and smoke screens.
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"... [Obama] ... has no serious intent to curb government whatsoever. ..."
Well duh. He knows what he's doing: Throwin' a bone to his worshippers, a bone they will stick in our faces every chance they get, while Obama knows the faithfull will never comprehend that 'bone' was garbage in the first place.
Obama's THAT much smarter than his worshippers. Sad.
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