Sequestration cuts are the talking points in today's
message from the field of Democrats out beating the drums to whip up the people
against the opposition. We have a three
and one half Trillion dollar budget and the sequestration cuts will amount to
about eighty-five billion dollars. That
counts for a little over two percent of the total budget. Not only that, the cuts are not going to be
real cuts, they are just a reduction in the proposed spending that represents
an increase in spending. It is like my
boss asking me what my budget for my shop needs for next year. I look at my budget for this year and see I
spent ten thousand dollars. I figure in
inflation, projects I want to do during the next year so I tell my boss I will
need a budget of twenty thousand dollars.
He considers that and says I can have only fifteen thousand dollars for
the new year. So I complain to all my
staff that we are cutting fifty percent of the budget in our shop and the sky
is going to fall on our head.
In reality, of course, I will not only spend the
ten thousand dollars I spent last year, but I will spend an additional five
thousand dollars for a total of fifteen.
From my perspective I have "lost" five thousand from my budget
for next year even though I received fifty percent more than last year. So the so-called cuts are only on paper, not
real cuts on programs. It is what the
politicians are wanting to spend above and beyond the budget they have had in
the past that has driven up the deficit to over 16 Trillion dollars.
The plan to fix the problem offered by the
Administration: Raise the taxes, again. Does that really make any sense?
Jim Killebrew
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