Democrats Use Budget Gimmicks To Hide Spending

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 03/15/2013 | John Merline

[IBD editorial writer]

In their first budget in four years, Senate Democrats claim to have crafted a plan that cuts federal spending a total of $975 billion over the next decade.

"This budget cuts spending responsibly," said Senate Budget Chairman Patty Murray, D-Wash., this week. "There are no sacred cows; we put everything we can on the table."

But an IBD review of the budget data shows that the Senate vastly overstates the size of its spending cuts. In fact, it could be that the Senate would, if enacted, increase federal spending by hundreds of billions of dollars.

[Hoodat]

In other words, Democrats lie.

[liberalh8ter]

Apparently, politicians are prime examples of the failure of the American education system. Simple mathematical equations elude them.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

As another poster put it earlier this week, “If Patty Murry's brain were a light bulb, it would not light the inside of a microwave oven.”

[liberalh8ter]

Dang, I missed that. It's a spot-on assessment. They're either evil or stupid or perhaps, it's a combination of both.

[ThunderSleeps]

It is a complete lie. What the 'rats are doing is simple. Basically, they'd like to spend say several trillion dollars, running up something like a trillion dollar deficit. Instead, they "only" plan on spending such that they run up a 900 billion dollar deficit - and then they claim credit for 100 billion in "deficit reduction."

No, you lying POS's - increasing the debt is not in any way, shape, or form "deficit reduction." You are still increasing the debt. By their logic I'm saving millions every day - every day that I don't go out and buy that place on the beach...

[yldstrk]

They are selfish and manipulative control freaks.

[TWhiteBear]

Senator Patti Murray is too stupid to lie well, but she can take orders.
Those of us who cannot see the Space Needle from where we live, get a big, sad laugh when we see that this bitter, ignorant partisan(Sen. Murray) has been foisted on the nation as Chairbeing of the Budget committee.
TWB