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MsDoodahs
01-25-2010, 07:12 PM
on some programs....

Didn't catch all the details....

Will add a link when I find one.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2521934120100126?type=usDollarRpt

"a three-year freeze on domestic spending in his 2011 budget that would save $250 billion by 2020,"

Wow, only 250 billion - over damn near ten years?

Woo hoo what a thrifty guy you have turned into, BO...

Never frikken mind, there really is NOTHING to see here....lol....

Chester Copperpot
01-25-2010, 07:13 PM
on some programs....

Didn't catch all the details....

Will add a link when I find one.

let me guess.. he'll freeze all the million dollar programs.. and expand by 250% all the billion dollar programs..

angelatc
01-25-2010, 07:15 PM
Here's one:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/01/president-obama-to-push-3-year-spending-freeze-on-non-security-discretionary-spending.html

Kotin
01-25-2010, 07:15 PM
let me guess.. he'll freeze all the million dollar programs.. and expand by 250% all the billion dollar programs..

yeah and increase taxes..WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

catdd
01-25-2010, 07:19 PM
...and divert all the money into empire building.

sluggo
01-25-2010, 07:21 PM
I think this is a good idea. But just to make sure, I think Barry and his posse should spend the remainder of his term living in a remote Kenyan village, far away from any phones, faxes, cameras, or computers.

MsDoodahs
01-25-2010, 07:22 PM
"It's designed to save $250 billion over the coming decade" is from the WSJ article I linked in the post about this in Econ subforum.

TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY BILLION OVER A DECADE?

Impressive, BO, impressive!

not....

ItsTime
01-25-2010, 07:33 PM
Apparently he came up with this plan having breakfast with a Clippers basketball player yesterday.

Stary Hickory
01-25-2010, 07:46 PM
spending needs to be at 1999 levels. We need cuts. Maintaining Obama's already bloated budget is ridiculous.

malkusm
01-25-2010, 08:19 PM
And yet, the Dems will throw it in your face every time you bring up the mounting debt...."It's not like he doesn't care about our fiscal situation! Look at all the money he's saving us!!!!!!!!"

(Keep in mind, he's saving us $250B based on the projected budgets that were calculated AFTER the stimulus, cap and trade, and the rest of the spending spree that he initiated.....)

KCIndy
01-25-2010, 08:25 PM
spending needs to be at 1999 levels. We need cuts. Maintaining Obama's already bloated budget is ridiculous.


Y'Know, that's a great point. If all the Kyoto accord pushers are so convinced we can cut carbon emissions to 1991 levels, why can't we cut *spending* back to at least 1999 levels??
:)

awake
01-25-2010, 08:26 PM
Cap and Trade will work if it is a system applied to reduce government.

malkusm
01-25-2010, 08:34 PM
Cap and Trade will work if it is a system applied to reduce government.

Cap: federal spending, state spending, war appropriations, new federal regulations on industry, taxation

and

Trade: Protectionism for capitalism, parentalism for social freedom, financial regulation for economic freedom, "government guns" for personal guns, fiat money for sound money.

1836er
01-25-2010, 09:07 PM
... like chipping away at the Antarctic Ice Sheet (which - just like the federal government - is growing rather than shrinking) with one of those little pink sampling spoons from Baskin-Robbins.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble.jpg/200px-Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble.jpghttp://www.baskinrobbins.co.uk/images/spoon.jpg

malkusm
01-25-2010, 09:15 PM
... like chipping away at the Antarctic Ice Sheet (which - just like the federal government - is growing rather than shrinking) with one of those little pink sampling spoons from Baskin-Robbins.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble.jpg/200px-Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble.jpghttp://www.baskinrobbins.co.uk/images/spoon.jpg

(liberal logic) Well, look at the picture - the global-warming spoon is half as big as Antartica, and since icecaps are melting at a global rate of 9% per decade (according to ONE UNREPUTABLE SOURCE), this means that the world will explode in no less than TWO DECADES!!!!!! :eek: :eek: (/liberal logic)

jmdrake
01-25-2010, 09:48 PM
spending needs to be at 1999 levels. We need cuts. Maintaining Obama's already bloated budget is ridiculous.

1999 levels would be ok as a start.

Dieseler
01-25-2010, 10:09 PM
I'd love to see spending cut back to 1912 levels.