Obama's Budget Cuts; or, Forget What You Know About Math

Listen up, baby birds. I know we all hate math, but I'm going to break it down for you.

Our budget for the fiscal year beginning this October will be $3 trillion +. When it's all said and done, I'm estimating about $1.2 trillion of that budget will be red ink. BUT, I'm sweetening the deal. I'm cutting $17 billion from the budget.

Some people have criticized this, saying in a $3T budget, my cuts only amount to change. And my response to them is: My presidency is all about change.

As I said in a recent speech:

"In Washington, I guess that's considered trivial. Outside of Washington, that's [$17bil] still considered a lot of money. . . But these savings, large and small, add up."

If we're going to change anything, we have to change our perceptions. Forget what you know.

Let me break it down for you.
Let's say that every day, you buy a grande Starbucks coffee. That's $2 a day, which works out to $730 a year. 45.6 gallons of coffee!

My budget cuts amount to (drumroll) two trips to Starbucks. (actually 1.8 trips)

Imagine the sacrifice. Imagine, in a life rich in coffee, two days without it. Imagine the drowsiness, the dispair, the lack of hope involved in cutting $4 (actually $3.65) from your coffee budget; losing 32 oz of precious bliss per year.

Now you know how I feel.

Now you know how astoundingly hopeful and full of change these cuts were.

And if we keep pocketing $4/year, while dropping $726/year on coffee, we will be outta this mess in no time!