Cutting the budget

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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???

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Mike_Presta Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List MUSA Council Joined: Apr 20 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3483	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mike_Presta Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Cutting the budget Posted: Feb 24 2011 at 5:06am
	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

Mike_Presta Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List MUSA Council Joined: Apr 20 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3483	Post Options Post Reply Quote Mike_Presta Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Feb 24 2011 at 5:19am
	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

VietVet Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008	Post Options Post Reply Quote VietVet Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply 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.

TonyB Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List MUSA Citizen Joined: Jan 12 2011 Location: Middletown, OH Status: Offline Points: 631	Post Options Post Reply Quote TonyB Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Feb 24 2011 at 9:44am
	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.

Hermes Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: May 19 2009 Location: Middletown Status: Offline Points: 1637	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hermes Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Feb 24 2011 at 12:32pm
	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 !!