Cutting The U.S. Budget: R U Kidding Me!

Reposted From December 5, 2012

If anyone believes this, I have a pile of old lottery tickets I want to sell.

Both Democrats and Republicans alike are wrestling over how much to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Both agree alike. Certain entitlements must be pared down. Whether you support Democrats or a Republicans in Congress, when it comes to war defense spending, both parties are passionately embracing one another like long lost lovers.The US Senate approves $631 billion defense budgetThis is $17 billion more then President Obama requested. The voting for it's approval wasn't even close. It was 98 yeas to 0 nays. The bill now goes back to the house for reconciliation where it's almost certain to pass.

I suppose we'll just have to look for another $17 billion in additional cuts somewhere else. Gee I wonder where that will be. They wouldn't be made by slashing those nasty old entitlements would they?

The Senate's 2013 defense budget is $76 billion less then it was for 2012.
OR IS IT?
According to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments- ANALYSIS OF THE FY 2012 DEFENSE BUDGET, "The FY 2012 budget requested a total of $118 billion in additional funding for the... operations in Afghanistan and... Iraq." Doing a few simple mathematical calculations I can show you that the 2013 defense budget actually increased by over 7% ($41.5 billion more).

Obama's figuring on spending $89 billion in 2013 for the war in Afghanistan. That figure is already included in this budget just passed in the Senate. Starting out on that knowledge we can begin to explain the math.

The 2012 budget for defense spending was $707.5 billion.. Subtracting the $$118 billion for the Afghanistan & Iraq wars from the 2012 defense budget of $705.5 billion leaves us with $589.5 billion. Not $631 billion. Therefore 2013 defense spending increased by over 7%. NOT DECREASED


Let's Talk More About Cutting EntitlementsIf you take a look at the link to Wikipedia I provided above, you will see this chart..

As you can easily see, the 2013 defense budget will be over double of what it was in 2000. According to Wikipedia, "The 2009 U.S. military budget accounts for approximately 40% of global arms spending. The 2012 budget is 6-7 times larger than the $106 billion of the military budget of China, and is more than the next twenty largest military spenders combined."

It's clear to see where our priorities lie. Democrats and Republicans alike prefer robbing borrowing from Social Security, which is paid into separately. Nay both sides would rather spend taxpayers' money building bigger bombs. More drones. More military bases and weapons to kill our perceived enemies.

It's obvious the path ahead in the coming budget negotiations will be to return even less of the money from citizens paychecks. This in order to provide greater national security for government itself rather then programs that could secure the personal needs of our people. You know, things like education, the elderly, infrastructure repairs, research, healthcare, etc., etc.


$4 trillion in 2013 budget and the only things
Congress can come up with is cuts to social need programs?
What about the 22 departments and 10,000's of sub agencies. We can't consolidate a number of them?

You mean to tell me it takes over 2,000,000 employees to run the federal government?

What about subsidies that number over 2,000 and the $300 billion yearly spent for them?

What about all those tax loopholes like foreign investment credits? (an estimated $800 billion)

What about billions (if not trillions) in the 'off-the-books' treasury department handouts to foreign nations?

What about the so-called debt forgiveness for foreign nations (that we knew we weren't going to get back in the first place). Lord knows Congress won't do it for underwater homeowners nor student loans. Are we then supposed to endure cuts here at home to pay for them?

As long as I see the NFL being considered tax exempt after bringing in $11 billion a year while we taxpayers build stadiums for them and other tax exempt sports teams and all this other craziness, I remain opposed to entitlement cuts.

Congress members in Washington should be drawn and quartered for even implying that they we can't afford grandma or they are gifting us in some way. Congress needs to be reminded yet again that IT'S NOT THEIR MONEY.

As I suggested there are plenty of ways to cut the budget or increase revenues. I refuse to accept the idea that the only path is through entitlement spending. There's no reason why Americans need feel guilty that they aren't worth their hourly pay. Nor that families are expected to work two jobs or more to make ends meet. There's no reason why granny has to eat rice and live in the kids basement.

I wish to remind people there was a time pop was the only one who went to work. He could feed and clothe his stay at home wife and kids. Why does it take two or three jobs now?

I'll tell you why. We're being scammed. I suppose I could sum up this whole thesis by bluntly stating, I ain't buying what these jackasses in Congress are selling. This is a manufactured crisis.

Defense Spending
It wasn't like we weren't warned this day would come

That day has now arrived!