If you had to cut your family’s budget, where would you cut?
Would you immediately start starving your children and stop wearing shoes? Of course not. You would look at the extras in your life—whether they were coffee shop lattes, movie tickets, or restaurant meals.
It’s a good thing the President wouldn’t be handling your budget. As Dan Holler of our sister organization, Heritage Action for America, has said: “If President Obama were making the decision for your family… he’d tell you to stop buying gas for your car and explain how you could only eat five days a week.”
Now that President Obama has turned against sequestration, he is suggesting that spending cuts to federal agencies must result in dire consequences. Firefighters, emergency responders, and teachers will all be cut, he claims. Media outlets have played up these sob stories, copying White House releases in their local news stories and soliciting sad testimonials from people who supposedly would be affected by these cuts.
But the question remains: Why would federal agencies cut their most vital assets instead of trimming around the edges? After all, the sequestration cuts are only 2.4 percent of federal spending.
Read More at heritage.org . By Amy Payne.
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you your (Lover) & Michelle need to take less vacations.
Inflation can be neutral when interest-free State banks null their personal, business and infrastructure loan repayments. Federal self-funding funding can also near inflation neutrality when fines, fees, forfeitures (including the proceeds from the Federal Reserve’s criminal activities), lottery and casino and other government enterprise profits are nulled upon receipt. But we must never forget that the massive monetary fraud is one of the most deadly crimes against humanity and the guilty deserve the most severe punishments and forfeitures. The issues are ultimately law enforcement, not economic. http://elect.ErnestHuberForCongress.com/
Allowing the banking crime syndicates and their government accomplices to criminally sell us their worthless cyber digits for face value plus interest that we stupidly repay through taxes is ultimately the single largest destroyer of humanity.
If you are serious about cutting spending, cut ALL foreign aid, especially to wealthy countries like Israel. We should also bring ALL our troops home and close bases around the world. If somebody needs us to be the world’s police, they can pay upfront. We need massive welfare reform. Start at the top with all the corporate welfare and work our way down. Sort of a trickle down welfare reform. Unless we do these things, all the talk about spending cuts is just that, talk.