It's just so excruciatingly frustrating to watch this train wreck. (Just heard Matt Lower call the sequester "deep cuts," by the way.)
The media are so incompetent to comment on this it amazes me. These people have college degrees?
Why can't we reduce spending to the levels before the stimulus? This question has been on the table since 2004. Stimulus spending raised the budget for those years by nearly 25%! There is no reason we shouldn't have been immediately able to reduce spending by 20% after the stimulus funds were spent.
What the heck is going on with the media? How is it possible that this question wasn't obvious to them? When will we get accountability from government?
Responding to the Obama administration's operatic warnings of catastrophe for Meals on Wheels for the elderly, Head Start, meat inspections, air traffic controllers, and police, fire, and 911 operators if the government reduces the rate of increase of federal spending by 2 percent, radio host Chris Plante offered the following suggestion: "Since this two percent obviously covers all essential government spending, let's cut the other 98 percent!"
Even if these "draconian cuts" are implemented, the federal government will spend more this year than it did last year.
Another way to think about it is this: In 2007, the government was 40...
- Snark
And BTW I meant 2008, of course.