[dr_lew]

"When government spending is about $3.8 trillion, you're going to cut $100 billion? That's a deck chair on the Titanic ..."

The Titanic displaced 46,000 tons. What's a deck chair?

Say 20 lbs or 0.01 tons. Then a deck chair to the Titanic is about 1 to 5,000,000 = $760,000 to $3.8 trillion, so this metaphor could aptly be applied to a cut of $1 million in a $3.8 trillion budget. $100 billion is actually fairly substantial, and would reduce $3.8 trillion to $3.7 trillion.

Reason!

[sand88]

$100 billion is actually fairly substantial, and would reduce $3.8 trillion to $3.7 trillion.

LOL did you forget the /sarc?? Your analogy is irrelevant

$100B is utterly meaningless.

[ctdonath2]

Actually, the metaphor is more like the Titanic, while sinking, takes on a shipment of 1000 more chairs (apply your math accordingly) - and, noting that the ship is sinking and can’t take on any more weigh lest it sink faster, the captain grudgingly agrees to reduce the acquisition by 10 chairs. The boat is still sinking, faster now thanks to the addition of 990 unnecessary and unaffordable chairs. The captain then lauded for having reduced the load and slowing the demise.

[ctdonath2]

To the point of #6, you’re not noting that the current budget is $3.5T.

[RKBA Democrat]

A better analogy would be two alcoholics at an all you can drink party having a learned discussion over the virtues of sobriety. With each alcoholic swearing to stop drinking...next time.