Obama, the Smart Shopper!

Although various politicians have denigrated the citizens
who actively participated in the April 15th “Tea Party” protests
as fringe elements or an “unhinged mob”, the majority of
Americans supported the protests, while the mainstream media
outlets gave it sparse notice, and were often quite disparaging.

Not surprisingly, President Obama took notice, and in his first
full cabinet meeting, he announced that the government agencies and
departments were going to cut $100 million dollars in government
spending (from the $4 trillion planned for this year!!).

Here’s another way to look at it. If you had 40,000 piles of money,
each with enough hundred and thousand dollar bills to make a
pile of $100 million dollars, you would be looking at $4 trillion dollars
(and you could proudly say to everyone – put it on my tab!!!).

So this year’s budget is 40,000 piles of $100 million dollars each, and
for the year 2010, the plan calls for another 35,000 piles ($3.5 Trillion
Dollars). Need I say that all these “piles” of borrowed money are going
to give future generations a giant “pain in the rear?”

The $100 million dollar spending cut amounts to a 1/40,000th cut in
government spending. While one pile is gone, 39,999 piles remain, and
President Obama proudly pointed to Janet Napolitano’s DHS as the
poster child for how these “savings” were going to be achieved.

The Dept. of Homeland Security proposed – and I kid you not – that it
would realize $52 million dollars in savings in her department ………
…………….over the next 5 years…………………
by “buying office supplies in bulk“.

That is her wonderful savings plan. And Obama bought it, and used it
as an example. I don’t know which is scarier.

Just think about it. Astounding. Absolutely amazing. 100% clueless.
(Did I mention pathetic?) Who do they think they’re kidding?

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