The Heritage Foundation responds: “Just how laughable is Obama’s latest stunt to try to maintain his “fiscal responsibility” credentials? This graphic might help:”
Don Surber has fun with the news:
[ABC White House correspondent Jake] Tapper to White House [Press Secretary] spokesbot Robert Gibbs: “You were talking about an appropriations bill a few weeks ago about $8 billion being minuscule — $8 billion in earmarks. We were talking about that and you said that that $100 million is a lot but $8 billion is small?”
The transcript is here.
Even Paul Krugman of the New York Times is having trouble with the latest “budget cut.”
“[P]retty soon, even here in Washington, it adds up to real money,” says the president.
Except, you know, really it doesn’t. Let’s say the administration finds $100 million in efficiencies every working day for the rest of the Obama administration’s first term. That’s still around $80 billion, or around 2% of one year’s federal spending.
And the media wonders why there were some 500 tea parties on April 15?
People aren't understanding this. See, they made the graph first, and Obama glanced at it and said, "What's this speck here? Can we get rid of that?"
ReplyDeleteI mean, I know a trillion is hard to grasp, but come on, are we that stupid? I pray that the Left are feeling as awkward as we did under Bush, so that there's at least some reason to still respect them.