Obama Wants You To Tell Him How to Make Govt Smaller

[Nathan Hale]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090425/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_spending

Have fun telling Obama what to do everyone....

[A. Havnes]

Ah, it's only government workers!

[ChaosControl]

Ah, it's only government workers!

Can't be having people who don't benefit from the high taxes having a word in you know...

[Bruno]

Had to pull myself off the floor from falling over in laughter at the title.

[silverhawks]

To confront that perception, Obama earlier in the week ordered officials to identify $100 million in savings to achieve over time — a relative pittance against the broader plan, his aides later acknowledged.

Let's take a look at that, shall we?

4/18

Obama Pledges to Fight Poverty, Fends Off Criticism on Cuba (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=auvif2K3YP_s&refer=home)


In his efforts to promote bottom-up growth, Obama announced last night a new $100 million Microfinance Growth Fund for the western hemisphere to “restart the lending that can power businesses and entrepreneurs in each and every country that’s represented here.”

4/20

Obama Budget Cuts: Will Order Cabinet to Quickly Cut $100 Million From Department Budgets (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/20/obama-budget-cuts-will-or_n_188874.html)


President Barack Obama on Monday ordered his Cabinet to find ways to slice spending by $100 million, but acknowledged it's a "drop in the bucket" and said there's a "confidence gap" that he needs to overcome. Just back from a Latin America summit, Obama told the first formal Cabinet meeting of his administration that vast spending to combat the economic crisis was "the right thing to do." But he also said taxpayers still need to know that every dollar they give the government is being spent wisely.

"We also have a deficit _ a confidence gap _ when it comes to the American people," he told reporters. "And we've got to earn their trust."

Obama said the $100 million would come from "efficiencies" in agency operations, and would be in addition to future cuts in programs that aren't working.

Net change? ZERO.

[MGreen]

The president said employees' ideas would be key as his Cabinet officials try to cut millions from the budget and trim the deficit.
LMAO. Cutting millions qualifies as "trimming the deficit"?

[ItsTime]

LMAO. Cutting millions qualifies as "trimming the deficit"?

I like my deli meat trimmed at 1/36,000th or whatever the number is lol :eek:

[He Who Pawns]

So he wants government employees living off the taxpayers to find ways to cut government spening? One word: QUIT.

[Bruno]

I like my deli meat trimmed at 1/36,000th or whatever the number is lol :eek:

good one. :D

[RideTheDirt]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/30-day-plan.html

[mport1]

Seems pretty simple. Abolish anything and everything possible. Problem solved.

[Ninja Homer]

lol... making the government smaller by cutting $100 million (over time) when you've spent $3 trillion is like cleaning up a 30,000 pound pile of bullshit from the White House lawn by removing 1 pound of it over a period of time.

[idiom]

a 30,000 pound pile of bullshit [on] the White House lawn

Now there is an idea for a protest.

[nayjevin]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/30-day-plan.html (http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/30-day-plan.html)

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