[Chode]

25% was an arbitrary number and you leave it to the individual departments where to make the reductions

i would redline the military budget but it's prolly not possible

i still say if you make X% cuts even overall it's still better than creating ANOTHER layer of government bureaucracy that will a)never achieve it's intended mission/namesake and b)will cost more EVERY YEAR from now to eternity!!!

[Cheburashka]

I agree that this announcement is just the Obamanation’s b___s___. I don't expect the Obamanation to actually do anything, the bureaucracy is his friend.

But don't expect some simple thing like a 25% cut to work when Palin is President either. Expect screaming and howling and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Expect the Wisconsin State Capitol Building times 100. Maybe times 300-400. Expect the bureaucracy to fight to the last man in the last trench. Do the American people have the stones to say to the bureaucrats “NO!”? The American people might even reelect the Obamanation just because they don't have the guts for the fight.