Obama’s idiotic $100 million plan
Hot Air reports that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said yesterday that he believes that $100 million is a big, big cut. Interestingly enough, Obama himself said not too long ago that saving $8 billion in pork was “miniscule.” So why is that $100 million is much, suddenly?
Well, the reason is simple: tea party protesters took the streets to protest wasteful spending, (future) higher taxes, and the unlimited growth of Washington. The White House knows that these protests could actually become serious. So they decided to throw fiscal conservatives a bone.
Sadly for Obama et al. $100 million is not a bone. It is, as NRO put it yesterday, a rounding error. Nothing more, nothing le
ss. It is 0.003% of Obama’s proposed budget. That means that 99.997% will remain. And please keep in mind that his budget is one of the biggest in history, and adds more to the deficit than Bush’s economic plans of the last eight year combined.
It is such a miniscule, irrelevant amount, that it is not even funny.
Here a video, thanks to Patterico’s Pontifications:
And here is another one, via Instapundit:
In case it is not clear yet just how idiotically insignificant these cuts are, here is a graph brought to you by one of my new favorite blogs, The New Ledger:
Only two questions remain:
1. Does the White House think voters, pundits, journalists, bloggers and analysts are this stupid?
2. Does the White House actually consider $100 million in cuts “much”?
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So long as we’re keeping things in perspective. The last Bush budget was $3.1 trillion. Is just $100 million in cuts still bad? Yea. And yes, the budget grows by almost $600 billion dollars, which is more than Bush or Clinton ever grew the budget in a year (Bush was usually $100 or $200 billion a year, except for $300 billion in 2005 when I believe war funding was finally accounted for). But Heritage, of course, forgot to add that layer.
net result MM – This administration is making the last one look extremely frugal.
but Heritage forgot to add that as well.