+30.5B: Federal Spending Up, Not Down, in First 5 Months of FY13---So Much For Cuts

[Ivorytickler]

Originally Posted by Darkatt

There were not cuts. The Sequestration reduced INCREASES, so they call it a cut.

Kinda like buying a toaster, the one you were going to get is 50$ and you get a different one on sale, and instead of 75$ you pay 65$ and say you saved 10$.
WELL.. No you didn't, you SPENT $65, which was 15$ more than you were going to spend, but it WAS 10$ less than the full price WOULD have been, so you say you saved 10$. It's called new government math.

The cuts, the government is talking about is instead of let say 100 million, in increased funds for the year, you only get 80 million in additional funds.. Well they call that a 20 million dollar cut. you spend only 80 million more, instead of 100 million more.

Yup. It was a cut in their planned increase not a cut in spending. It's as if my boss planned on giving me a 5% raise but only gave me a 4% raise. I still got a raise. (I wish I really got a raise )

[Mircea]

Originally Posted by Mr Spock

If there are no increases then you can't keep government services up to date with inflation and the needs of a growing population.

Services? Like what, shrimp on treadmills? Or were you referring to Jell-O parties?

Well, actually, that kind of fails....the people don't get to participate in the Jell-O parties...that's only for government workers.

You're not suggesting that a growing population needs the TSA on every street corner, are you?

Wondering...

Mircea