[RightGeek]

Most pertinent line: "As Arthur Herman of the American Enterprise Institute pointed out this week, under present rules, if the government were to announce a spending freeze – that's to say, no increases, no cuts, everything just stays exactly the same – the Congressional Budget Office would score it as a $9 trillion savings. In real-world terms, there are no "savings," and there's certainly no $9 trillion. In fact, there isn't one thin dime. But nevertheless that's how it would be measured at the CBO."

Hey, I just developed a $9 trillion deficit reduction plan!

[dhs12345]

And we trust the CBO to rate the various bills that come out of Congress? What a sham.

We should be very very worried about Obamacare.

[Terry Mross]

We’ve cut our budget down as much as possible. Trying like hell not to get into our savings. I just figured out that if we “break even” every month I’m going to save a bunch of money over the next decade. sarc

Only the government would count money not spent as money saved. Ben Franklin did not say “A penny not spent is a penny earned”?

[No more debt]

You are right. All of this talk of cutting trillions is a massive FRAUD. What is being discussed are not real cuts to current spending levels - but rather make-believe cuts to a make-believe ten year spending projection. (So most of the cuts come in projected spending in out years, spending over which this congress has no control, no power, no authority.)

Both parties are in on this fraud. We need to rise up and scream STOP. We need to insist on real cuts to current spending.