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.
This like asking you to skip the 35 cent sprinkles on your Starbucks latte to trim your annual budget.
It isn’t even suggesting you skip the Starbucks latte.
Cut $100 million out of $700 BILLION?
$100,000,000.00 vs. $700,000,000,000.00??
ROFLMAO!
Tell ya what, Zero. Give me the difference and I’ll start my own Republic, LOL!
What a bunch of dopes we have running the show these days.
Funny and pathetic all at the same time.
Did he also ask the cabinet secretaries to look under their seat cushions for spare change???
Hey Bammy - cut back on your Wagyu and long distance pizza spending.
“and hopes to pass another 700+ billion dollar ‘stimulus’”
OMG, not another one!!!!!!!! Is tax-and-spend the only thing these socialists know how to do????
Someone needs to take care of that problem child.
Not sure of the math but it is reported that depending on over what time period the cuts (?) take place it will work out to 0.0029% of the budget. Makes me proud. NOT!
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
God save us from this disgusting murderer.