HE SAID WE SHOULD DO THE MATH, SO LET'S

In his final press conference of his first term in office, President BO (the amateur president) kept talking about the need for congress to “pay our nations bills.” “We have to pay what we owe,” he said.

Then he proceeded to lecture the press corps about the necessity to “do the math,” proclaiming, “the math just won’t work.”

The President has ordered the cabinet to cut $100 million from the $3.5 trillion dollar federal budget (which will be difficult, considering that we have not had a budget for 4 years, due to the Senate’s failure to produce one).

$100 million dollars! That’s a lot of money that he wants us to cut!

Let’s do a little math, shall we?

Let’s say it costs me $2,000.00 per month to meet my required expenses (a fairly close figure - groceries, household expenses, medicine, utilities, etc.,).

Let’s further say I decide to follow the President’s suggestion and cut my personal budget by the same ratio as the feds.

He is suggesting a 1/35,000th reduction in spending.

Using that figure, instead of $2,000.00 per month, I will now be spending $1,999.94, a reduction of $.06 (that’s 6 cents, for those of you educated in government schools).

Isn’t that what sacrifice is all about? I’ll have to do without $.06 worth of “luxuries.”

When President BO (the amateur president) encouraged us to do the math, did he think we wouldn’t take the time to actually do it?

Do you people understand how idiotic a $100 million cut is in a $3.5 trillion budget?

John Adams said, "There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation... One is by sword... The other is by debt."

You can see an illustration of the actual math HERE.