Today, word came out that President Obama has cut $17 billion from the 2010 budget. While that is a lot of money to you and me, it is a measly 0.47% of the $3.55 trillion budget that has been proposed for this year. Surely, with the way things are going, the 2010 budget figures to be even bigger, so the $17 billion will become an even smaller percentage.
During his campaign, Obama promised to go through the budget, line by line and cut programs that weren’t working or were not necessary. Looks like he thinks 99.53% of all the government spending is necessary. And he’ll probably tout this as the “change” he promised and the media and all of his supporters will eat it up. They’ll just blame the Republicans and Bush for making all the spending “absolutely necessary.”
Just when I think Obama can’t be more of a hypocrite, he does something like this. Why even announce you’re “cutting” less than one-half of one percent of the budget? This country is going off a cliff, and Obama isn’t putting on the brakes, he’s flooring the gas.
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