Cutting the budget
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Topic: Cutting the budget
Posted By: Mike_Presta
Subject: Cutting the budget
Date Posted: Feb 24 2011 at 5:06am
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The President ordered the cabinet to cut a whopping $100 million from the $3.5 trillion federal budget! We're so impressed by this sacrifice that we have decided to do the same thing with our personal budget. We spend about $5,000 a month on groceries, insurance, eating out, household expenses, medicine, utilities, auto, food, etc., but it's time to get out the budget cutting ax, go line by line through my expenses, and cut back! We're going to cut our spending at exactly the same ratio: 1/35,000 of our total budget. After doing the math, it looks like instead of spending $5,000 a month; we're going to have to cut that number by . . . 14¢.
Yes, we're going to have to get by with $4,999.86, but that's what sacrifice is all about. We'll just have to do without some things, that are, frankly, luxuries. But there is nothing in our monthly budget that costs as little as 14¢!!! Perhaps we can skip something that costs $1.68 once per year, and that way we will be cutting back to the same extreme length as the president expects congress to cut back!!!
Did everybody in the White House actually think no one would do the math??? ------------- “Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012 |
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Posted By: Mike_Presta
Date Posted: Feb 24 2011 at 5:19am
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If the City of Middletown were to cut their total $129 MILLION annual budget by the same ratio, they would have to spend just under $3,686 per year less!!! ------------- “Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012 |
Posted By: VietVet
Date Posted: Feb 24 2011 at 7:09am
Mike- ya gotta stop this stuff. You always want to stir the pot with facts and squelch the smokescreening. You picked on the city leaders for years (Gilleland has her thugs watching you) and now you're starting on the feds. You have a nasty habit of bringing the real items to the surface and exposing the games being played. This is not politically correct and your potential political career in this town may be in jeopardy if you continue these shenanigans mister.   Probably fed agents on the road to Middletown as we speak.
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Posted By: TonyB
Date Posted: Feb 24 2011 at 9:44am
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What was that statement from a while back: "A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money!" I agree with you that we need real budget cuts. I just wish that our leaders would stop copping out with the "across the board" garbage and go after the real waste and inefficient government programs. Somehow, $40 billions in oil company subsidies doesn't seem justified when you look at their balance sheets. The corporate welfare system needs the same revision that we made to personal welfare. Of course, as long as our present government is a "corporatocracy", there's very little chance of that happening. |
Posted By: Hermes
Date Posted: Feb 24 2011 at 12:32pm
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I heard the president of China was very impressed with all the land he now owns in America.He has one plot of land he wants to turn into a waste dump,I think it was called Washington,DC.Unfortunately he is also going to call all home loans,he said he needs the money to build a new house on some property he called the state of Ohio.
But things are looking good ! Obama has a comprehensive plan ! (Sounds real familiar for some reason) ------------- No more democrats no more republicans,vote Constitution Party !! |