Its a step in the right direction.
I suppose, but its a tiny step in the right direction after taking many in the wrong direction. A strong majority of spending isn't touched, and the part that is, had already increased by a lot before the freeze.
And its only a tiny step in the right direction if it actually happens. Its put off for a year, and there is plenty of time for the idea to fade away before even an attempt at implementation is tried. And even if Obama really tries it, it might not get anywhere in congress after all the special interests involved have a year to gear up their campaigns against the parts of it that affect them. If you start cutting out parts of the freeze, then you move from it covering only a small part of the budget to it covering almost nothing.
" This is sort of like being overweight because you’re eating 5 Big Macs for breakfast, 15 for lunch, and 15 for dinner, and announcing – “the 5 Big Macs that I eat for breakfast are enough. I’m not going to increase the size of my breakfast … but I make no promises about lunch or dinner.” "
No true at all. He will cut back at least 5 Macs during the day....maybe more.
No, its exactly as the blogger described it. A small portion (the breakfast) is frozen (kept to 5 big macs) while the rest (lunch and dinner) are still allowed to grow (and almost certainly will).
Well it is inaccurate in one way. The blogger didn't go far enough. Breakfast is one third of your meals a day. A lot less than one third of the budget is covered by this idea for a freeze.
And once again we hear from the party of NO.
Few people are saying no to this plan. Obama wants to do this? Fine, you won't hear no from me. But posing this as a solution, is like figuring you'll solve your problems making your rent or mortgage payment by searching for lost change on the ground.
OK to be fair to Obama he didn't say this will solve our budget problems, but he acts like its significant in doing so, when it is no more significant than the lost change in my analogy, or TJIC's 5 big mac breakfast freeze idea. |
