Comments on: Quote Of The Day — Obama Cost-Cutting http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/04/21/quote-of-the-day-obama-cost-cutting/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Prose Before Hos http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/04/21/quote-of-the-day-obama-cost-cutting/#comment-65739 Prose Before Hos Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:34:32 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=5387#comment-65739 On Slashing $100 Million…

Earlier this week, Greg Mankiw jumped on the reports that Obama planned to ask his cabinet members to slash $100 million from their combined budgets:
Just to be clear: $100 million represents .003 percent of $3.5 trillion.
To put those numbers in persp…

]]> By: The Liberty Papers »Blog Archive » Comment Of The Day http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/04/21/quote-of-the-day-obama-cost-cutting/#comment-65610 The Liberty Papers »Blog Archive » Comment Of The Day Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:25:15 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=5387#comment-65610 [...] that he should do that every day for the rest of his term, and we might get somewhere. Akston suggested that might still not get us very far: Actually at that rate (100 million a day), it’d take well [...]

]]> By: Akston http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/04/21/quote-of-the-day-obama-cost-cutting/#comment-65598 Akston Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:32:13 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=5387#comment-65598 …or one who cleans out all the kids’ piggy banks, leaves a “U-O-Me” note promising he’ll be back to collect what he couldn’t carry, then “goes straight” by taking back a dollar from one of the folks he gave your money to.

]]> By: The Liberty Papers »Blog Archive » Obamessiah Pisses Away More of Your Money http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/04/21/quote-of-the-day-obama-cost-cutting/#comment-65588 The Liberty Papers »Blog Archive » Obamessiah Pisses Away More of Your Money Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:55:43 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=5387#comment-65588 [...] Merf: This whole weight loss analogy doesn’t hold up at all. It would be more accurate to compare this to a… [...]

]]> By: Merf http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/04/21/quote-of-the-day-obama-cost-cutting/#comment-65587 Merf Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:52:06 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=5387#comment-65587 This whole weight loss analogy doesn’t hold up at all.

It would be more accurate to compare this to a thief that promises to steal less from each house.

]]> By: trumpetbob15 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/04/21/quote-of-the-day-obama-cost-cutting/#comment-65582 trumpetbob15 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:40:19 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=5387#comment-65582 I loved how Obama mentions how he has to start somewhere. This is like the skinny kid gaining 300 pounds in a month and saying, “Well, if I lose 3 pounds a week, we’ll be good. Gotta start somewhere, right?” Yeah, get started a wee bit bigger in those cuts.

]]> By: Akston http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/04/21/quote-of-the-day-obama-cost-cutting/#comment-65579 Akston Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:50:46 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=5387#comment-65579 Actually at that rate (100 million a day), it’d take well over 100 years to compensate the recent 4 trillion in new spending. And that would only account for principal, not interest.

]]> By: John http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/04/21/quote-of-the-day-obama-cost-cutting/#comment-65568 John Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:38:39 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=5387#comment-65568 Now if he would just do that every day for the rest of his term, we might get somewhere.

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