Oh, the hysterics over Obama’s piddling cuts! All of Washington and their media amplifiers have been apoplexed. Meanwhile, the blogosphere has been straining at gnats (hey, there’s a good one!) trying to illustrate just how exceedingly miniscule these supposedly horrific cuts are. Here’s my favorite example so far:
How small? Well, consider that the budget the President submitted for 2011, the one with these bowel-loosening cuts in it, clocks in at about $3.83 trillion. The President’s cuts come to a smidgen over 0.0002 of that amount. Yep, you read that right ? the President’s deep, tough cuts are two ten thousandths of the total, or two hundredths of one percent. …
Maybe it’d help if we visualized the President’s “difficult” cuts in relation to his overall budget. Let’s think in terms of pennies. Ten thousand dollars is approximately one million pennies. That’s a stack of pennies almost a mile high … Take two pennies ? two ten thousandths of the whole ? out of that pile of almost one million and you?ll have Barack Obama’s cuts.
Ouch. The pain, it is unbearable.
Gruesome. It has all the makings of a tremendous horror film. Imagine:
