Fast on the heels of the news that the President's proposal to let poor people freeze to death next winter really is in the budget, it's not just some sort of sick joke, President Obama has tried to placate those on the left that have been howling for some of the cuts to come from somewhere other than the poor and the middle class, by announcing that he was cutting the defense budget by $78 Billion.
$78 Billion stripped from the budget of the most untouchable of sacred cows in D.C. has got to be great news right?
Not really. You see the "cuts" aren't really cuts at all. What is actually happening is that the Pentagon is going to get $78 Billion less over the next five years than was originally projected. In other words they are still going to get an increase in their budget, it will just be less than originally planned. And the President dressed that turkey up as a "defense spending budget cut" and took it out for a walk.
Really? Just how dumb does he think we are? If I asked for a 10% pay raise but only got 5% I didn't actually get a 5% pay cut, I still got a pay raise, just not as much as I'd asked for, and yet that is exactly what the Obama administration is trying to claim with this budget proposal. For a guy that claims to 'do nuance' this is about as nuanced as a pork chop in a synagogue.
You know, I expect to get screwed when the guy in the Whitehouse has an 'R' after his name, after all it's what they're best at, but I sure as hell don't expect it when they have a 'D' after their name.
All of this makes me very nervous for the future of Social Security and Medicare, neither of which have been declared 'off limits' by this President.
Stay tuned.
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