Our fearless leader today ordered his cabinet to cut $100 million in wasteful government spending. That's no small amount -- if you are a third world country, that is.
On the heels of his enormous $3.6 trillion dollar budget, however, it shows for what it really is. This is political stunt designed to make his ignorant voting base feel good. He likes to put on a good show for his disciples.
When asked, Obama acknowledged these spending cuts are insignificant. He answered, however, that these efforts add up. "$100 million here, $100 million there, pretty soon even in Washington it adds up to real money."
But just how do these insignificant spending cuts add up to real fiscal discipline? Let's just put these numbers into perspective. Let's consider his recent spending spree -- his $3.6 trillion dollar budget.
This is what it looks like in real numbers:
$3,600,000,000,000
Obama would need quite a few of these $100 million dollar spending cuts to add up to take some of the sting out of his bloated budget. Thirty six thousand, in fact.
If we break that down further over the next four years, it would require 9000 of these same spending cuts per year, or 25 per day, or approximately 2.75 per hour, given a nine hour work day.
Since we are comparing this fiscally responsible $100 million spending cut to this year's budget, however, let's do it one better.
Over the course of the next year, which in the spirit of generosity, given that his budget was signed several weeks ago, we will consider to be twelve months from this date, Obama would need to make nearly 99 of these same spending cuts per day, eleven per hour, or one every five and a half minutes.
It makes me think he will need to assign a special team dedicated solely to the work of cutting all of his spending. But then he will have to pay them, on the tax-payers' dime, of course, because nobody works for free in government. And this is hard work, combing through budgets and fiscal reports to find, assess, and eliminate programs and spending. How much will this cost us?
I guess I better start recalculating...
Monday, April 20, 2009
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