I'll take the Hardee's Monster Burger, even though it has as much saturated fat as an entire stick of butter
And the 24 scoop ice cream sundae, with extra whipped cream
But I'm watching my weight, so I'll split my diet coke with Michelle.
Posted on 04/21/2009 8:15:01 AM PDT by keep your powder dry
Zero proposes a 3.6 trillion dollar budget, and hopes to pass another 700+ billion dollar 'stimulus' - and asks for a 100 million dollar spending 'trim'......
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama told agency heads to trim spending by $100 million, a largely symbolic effort that foreshadows bigger budget fights down the road.
Responding to Republican lawmakers -- and some ordinary voters -- who complained that his policy proposals are too costly, Mr. Obama told cabinet chiefs to find the savings in current operations and report back within 90 days.
The president acknowledged at his first cabinet meeting that the new effort wouldn't put much of a dent in the budget deficit. But in combination with other budget-cutting efforts, "cumulatively they make an extraordinary difference because they start setting a tone," Mr. Obama said. "A hundred million there, a hundred million here, pretty soon even in Washington, it adds up to real money."
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Let’s see...what does he want us to do now...keep the temp at 72, live in multiple unit housing and ride the bus or train? I suggest he lead by example. Cool down the WH and set up apartments with shared bathrooms and use public transportation.
Some GOP are saying something? Amazing!
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7014870099
GOP Calls Obama’s Planned $100 Million Budget Cut ‘An Insult To Taxpayers’
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April 21, 2009 10:11 a.m. EST
Kris Alingod - AHN Contributor
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Republicans had only scathing words in response to President Barack Obama’s request to Cabinet members to make a total of $100 million in additional cuts to their budgets.
The President held his first Cabinet meeting on Monday and asked members to report back on the budget cuts in 90 days.
“[The] message that I delivered today to all members of the Cabinet was: As well as you’ve already done, you’re going to have to do more. I’m asking for all of them to identify... additional cuts, separate and apart from the work that [Budget Director] Peter Orszag and the rest of our team are doing to go line by line with the budget,” he told reporters after the meeting.
“In the next few weeks we expect to cut at least 100 current programs in the federal budget so that we can free up those dollars in order to put them to use for critical areas like health care, education, energy, our foreign policy apparatus, which is so important,” he added
According to the White House, agencies have already begun implementing cost-cutting measures, such as a Justice Department program to save $6.7 million by converting forfeiture notices from newspapers to the Internet, and the Veterans Affairs Department’s planned use of video conferencing and cancellation of 26 conferences to save nearly $17.8 million.
Republicans said the President’s goal was “laudable” but is far short of what is needed to cut wasteful spending.
In a statement, House Republican Whip Press Secretary Brad Dayspring said, “Saving is always a laudable goal, but this meager proposal is an insult to taxpayers considering the billions of dollars wasted in the Democrats’ budget. To put this proposal in perspective, House Republicans worked to secure more savings for taxpayers simply by forcing the removal of the non-stimulative National Mall provision from the stimulus plan.”
The GOP early this year had successfully removed a provision in the President’s $787 billion economic stimulus package allocating $200 million to refurbish the National Mall in D.C. The stimulus, or the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), was passed by Congress in February amid GOP concerns about the cost of the legislation and with only three Republican votes.
The Republican Conference Committee, a group of 100 conservatives, said in a statement the cut “amounts to about 0.0025 percent of his record-breaking $4 trillion in spending this year,” and that the President was “confusing empty symbolism with fiscal responsibility.”
“A miniscule spending cut in the wake of the President’s historically reckless budget proposal is a media ploy,” RSC chairman Tom Price (R-GA) added. “This publicity stunt is not only a shallow attempt at making headlines, but it is an affront to the American taxpayers who will be paying for the President’s agenda for decades to come.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel (R-KY) also said a statement he “applauds” the efforts of the President but the administration, together with Congress, needs to do more.
“Any amount of savings is welcome. But according to Congressional Budget Office numbers, that’s about the average amount we’ll spend every single day on interest payments alone on the Stimulus package,” the Senate leader said.
Congress passed a $3.5 trillion version of the administration’s budget plan early this month with no Republican votes. The House voted 233-196, and the Senate 55-43, with two centrist Democrats, Sens. Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Ben Nelson (D-NE), opposing the measure. The two bills still have to be reconciled in the coming weeks.
A GOP alternative proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the ranking minority member in the House Budget Committee, makes permanent the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts. It was defeated in the House by a 293-137 vote, with 38 Republicans voting against it. Another alternative proposed by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) also failed to gain the support of centrist Republicans and was rejected by a vote of 38-60.
I'll take the Hardee's Monster Burger, even though it has as much saturated fat as an entire stick of butter
And the 24 scoop ice cream sundae, with extra whipped cream
But I'm watching my weight, so I'll split my diet coke with Michelle.
in the meantime, he orders a 800 mile pizza delivery
it would have been different if it had been a Chicago Style Deep Dish - what a traitor!
God save us from this disgusting murderer.
i think this is a bunch of fluff like most of you, but i did read through the article, and i think that eliminating or reducing SUBSIDIES to higher income farmers IS a good idea. and i’m not sure why anyone should oppose it. i’m opposed to subsidies and free handouts in general, but i don’t want rich farmers getting what is essentially corporate welfare.
i’m also opposed to the subsidy we are currently providing our pulp and paper industry. they add diesel to black liquor (a pulp and/or paper byproduct) to get the same subsidies that ethanol suppliers get. before the green/alternative energy subsidies were in place, these pulp & paper companies just burned the black liquor. now they burning diesel (adding it to the black liquor) in order to get $10 billion in subsidies.
The Logic of the left is amazing.
“And he’s very good at it. but then how could he not be, when the media’s so firmly in his corner?”
How can he fail with the media “grading his tests”?
The Guy is focused on the Wednesday night Hip Hop event in the White house zeros mean nothing!
Yup.
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