You call those budget cuts?

My fellow Republican Party Leadership believes they have made tremendous and historically notable progress with cutting the President’s 2011 Budget. But, when you consider the dollars that must be borrowed to cover the still existant costs within the President’s proposed budget, the actual savings, even after the GOP’s 'radical' intervention, are all but negated; with the end result being literally no savings to the American people, nor any reduction in the Federal debt or deficit.

When we say cut, we mean cut! You must no longer do what every Washington elected has typically done and even more specifically, you are no longer allowed to play with the numbers and thereafter provide us with nothing more than rhetoric to soften the effects of your inattention, inactivity and ineffectiveness.

The devil is in the details! 95% of people will tell you cowboy poetry doesn't need to be subsidized but those 5% are quite passionate and get it kept in the budget.
85% of us think turning food into fuel is craziness especially when American taxpayers subsidize it but Iowa farmers like it and since theirs is the first caucus, the program continues. Plus Archer Daniels also likes those tax credits. Sen. John Kerry was against the ethanol program until he decided to run for president and then he "saw the light".

One reason why I favor a 5% across the board budget cut, including military, SS and Medicare. This would hopefully trim the fat and increase it by 1% every year. And along with that, I would increase everyone's taxes 5% no matter what you earn, and increase by 1% every year for 5 years.

40% of our budget is put on credit cards, anyone here live that way for very long?

So you too see how ineffective and inefficient this government is? Tea Party Patriots aside, no no has yet stepped forward to tell our elected 'officials' that we want the gov't to stop spending now!, and to stop feeding us Bull S*&t.

Budget Deal Actually Cut Less Than $15 Billion

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ ... story.html
The full extent of the budget deal reached late Friday did not become clear until today "after congressional aides worked all weekend and all day Monday to shape a detailed spending plan based on the framework that Obama and congressional leaders agreed to Friday," the Washington Post reports.

"In several cases, what look like large reductions are actually accounting gimmicks."

http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress ... y-20110412
National Journal: "The specifics show that finding nearly $40 billion in cuts during the 2011 fiscal year required clever accounting and, for the White House, a willingness to concede on rhetoric to find gains on substance. For example, the final cuts in the deal are advertised as $38.5 billion less than was appropriated in 2010, but after removing rescissions, cuts to reserve funds and reductions in mandatory spending programs, discretionary spending will be reduced only by $14.7 billion."

Wasn't it about a week's worth of spending? Wooohooo!