The Non-Budget Budget

Congratulations new members of Congress! You fought tough campaigns and now you are ready to take on Washington and tame federal spending.

Where to begin?

First, tell everyone what you won't be cutting. That's right. Every budget proposal begins by telling the voters who won't be affected by budget cuts.

Obviously, our bankers won't be affected, so interest on the nation's debt is off the table.

Social Security and Medicare? No cuts there. Senior Citizens can't afford them and, besides, they vote!

Defense? If you are a conservative, you probably don't want to touch defense. If you are a Democrat facing a tough race, you don't want to be accused of being soft on terrorism.

Homeland Security? Can't touch that. FBI? Nope. Veterans? No way.

In fact, take off all of the above and you're left with roughly 10% of the almost $4 trillion budget. But that includes education and agriculture and research and science and housing and roads and national parks.

Cut it all of that out and the deficit will still be over $1 trillion dollars this year! Welcome to Washington! And good luck

Source: http://www.pbs.org/nbr/blog/2011/01/the_non-budget_budget.html

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