RASMUSSEN POLL-64% of americans prefer LESS SERVICES and LOWER TAXES..

So $5 trillion is no big deal huh dude?

As a Republican elected city councilperson back in the 1990s, yes I did help create a 15% rainy day fund (savings account for the city) AND reduced spending through attrition in the police department. Also increased spending in better fire and public services equipment which had been ignored for a long time.
 
have you ever seen Democrats?.....where i am at they both do a good job of either growing it or keeping it like it is.....

Growth In Government Spending Under President Obama Slower Than During Bush, Reagan Administrations | ThinkProgress

Evidence of the cost-cutting measures employed by Obama can be found in the last several jobs reports. While the overall number of jobs created has steadily increased for the last several months, those advances have all come entirely in the private sector. Public sector jobs have actually been on the decline for much of the last year as government spending on some agencies and programs have been cut.

Economics Professor Mark Thoma provides a helpful chart on his blog that puts President Obama’s per capita spending into context, comparing it with the spending of every president in the last 40 years.

govt-spending-per-capita.jpg

That’s likely a hard pill to swallow for Obama’s critics, who have spent years hammering his administration for record spending and fiscal irresponsibility. The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson put it best : “Going by federal expenditures…it would seem that if Obama’s a socialist, Ronald Reagan is Karl Marx with an ICBM.”


So what ?

What are his actual numbers....the amount he spent....

This is a change in the rate of growth.

Another smoke screen by the left.

Was a dollar worth the same under Reagan as it is now? Is that why you want to compare 'actual' numbers?
 
RASMUSSEN POLL-64% of americans prefer LESS SERVICES and LOWER TAXES.

that is what they say until it negatively impacts them.

That is the fact about 64% of Americans.
 
RASMUSSEN POLL-64% of americans prefer LESS SERVICES and LOWER TAXES.

that is what they say until it negatively impacts them.

That is the fact about 64% of Americans.

I was going to say the same thing. Someone else's program or need looks like a waste, but not the things they need. As it stands, we are looking at across the board spending cuts at the federal level correct?
 
Majorities said that defense spending was more than they expected when it was presented in comparison to other items in the discretionary budget (65%), to historical defense spending levels in constant dollars (60%), and to the defense spending of potential enemies and allies (56%).

However the amount of defense spending was more consistent with expectations when presented in comparison to Social Security and Medicare and in terms of historical trends as a percentage of GDP. From no perspective was it less than expectations.

The area cut by the greatest percentage was nuclear weapons, which respondents reduced an average of 27% (Republicans 18%, Democrats 35%). The area that was cut the most in dollar terms was for existing ground force capabilities which was cut an average of $36.2 billion (Republicans $23.8 billion, Democrats $44.5 billion) or 23%.

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/p...tescanadara/716.php?lb=brusc&pnt=716&nid=&id=
 
In a unique study, a representative sample of Americans were shown the size of the defense budget from different perspectives and presented with arguments that experts make for and against cutting it. Three quarters of respondents favored cutting defense as a way to reduce the deficit, including two thirds of Republicans as well as nine in 10 Democrats.



http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/p...tescanadara/716.php?lb=brusc&pnt=716&nid=&id=
 
That’s likely a hard pill to swallow for Obama’s critics, who have spent years hammering his administration for record spending and fiscal irresponsibility. The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson put it best : “Going by federal expenditures…it would seem that if Obama’s a socialist, Ronald Reagan is Karl Marx with an ICBM.”

Democrat presidents are good for reduced government growth because they create Republican congresses.

Republican presidents are bad for reduced government growth because they're liberals who create Democrat congresses.
 
So what can we get rid of?

Meat inspection? Sure. Let the factory farms inspect their own meats. If we have major incidents of bacterial infections, let the consumer decide who to sue, and come up with their own lawyers to do epidemiology to prove it.

FDA? There's some low hanging fruit for wingnuts. Let the pharmas tell you how well their drugs work. Who needs an unbiased central repository of adverse drug reactions. Who needs carefully monitored clinical trials to determine relative efficacy.

Speaking of FDA. Who cares about phony labeling. If a moron wants to buy something labeled "Lite" which has more fat/salt/sugar, screw them.

Screw air traffic control. A good pilot should be able to land and take off their own ship.

Miners ought to be able to determine the safety of their own workspace. Screw government, buy a canary.

Inspect bridges? I see nothing explicit in the Constitution. Drivers should be on their own.
 
guess what services they were willing to cut?

They will only cut enforcement money. FDA, EPA, etc. they do not have to balls to cut the programs that will make their supporters squeal.
they will cut very few real dollars. They will brag about how they cut projected increases though.
 
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Truth is, the only major thing you might see would be a change in the age to recieve full Social Security benefits. They'll talk about rooting out Medicaid fraud. In the end, Congress will wait until things are like Greece and throw up their arms in frustration and claim they have no choices.
 
Have you ever seen Republicans reduce government?

have you ever seen Democrats?.....where i am at they both do a good job of either growing it or keeping it like it is.....

Growth In Government Spending Under President Obama Slower Than During Bush, Reagan Administrations | ThinkProgress

Evidence of the cost-cutting measures employed by Obama can be found in the last several jobs reports. While the overall number of jobs created has steadily increased for the last several months, those advances have all come entirely in the private sector. Public sector jobs have actually been on the decline for much of the last year as government spending on some agencies and programs have been cut.

Economics Professor Mark Thoma provides a helpful chart on his blog that puts President Obama’s per capita spending into context, comparing it with the spending of every president in the last 40 years.

govt-spending-per-capita.jpg

That’s likely a hard pill to swallow for Obama’s critics, who have spent years hammering his administration for record spending and fiscal irresponsibility. The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson put it best : “Going by federal expenditures…it would seem that if Obama’s a socialist, Ronald Reagan is Karl Marx with an ICBM.”

apparently California does its own thing....
 

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