When It’s The Government Doing The Cutting – Spending Cuts are NOT Really Cuts…
Once again the over-the-top theatrics coming out of Washington are nothing more than subterfuge designed to, once again, pull the wool over the American people’s eyes. All the talk about the “Sequester” and the automatic cuts (fake cuts) that are going to be implemented since the administration and the two factions of congress can come to no consensus on the budget talks.
I tell people, almost on a daily basis, that the “spending cuts” “they” are talking about are NOT cuts at all. They are merely cuts in the projected increases. In the final analysis they are still going to be increasing the spending and my question is this: Why does the main stream media NEVER point this out? Hmm? Maybe it’s because they’ve been bought and paid for because I know they know that the spending cuts aren’t really cuts. They must know.
Ron Paul, during the debates of the GOP Primary, stated over and over and over that every single cut that the other candidates were proposing as a part of their budget plans were, in fact, not cuts at all. And the funny thing was that when he made this accusation, to their faces, non of them denied the truth of his statement.
Any time the politicians speak of spending cuts they are only referring to cutting the rate of the increase in spending which, of course, is not a cut at all. Can you imagine your business or personal accountant telling you you need to make cuts in your spending to meet your budget and so you decide you’ll actually increase your spending and then tell him you decided not to increase your spending as much as you were going to and that that constitutes a cut. He’d probably quite being your accounted because he’d be afraid of not getting paid and then he’d probably recommend a good therapist.
Forbes reports:
The sequester has been advertised as “cutting” discretionary spending over a ten year period by $995 billion. After inflation adjustments and exempting more than a trillion dollars of defense and non defense discretionary spending from the sequester, the CBO projects (in its Table 1.1) discretionary spending to increase by $110 billion over the decade. There is no actual $995 billion cut after the CBO applies its magic adjustments. Rather there is a $110 billion increase. Continue reading…
The only time I’ve heard the truth from any media outlet was on Cross Talk which is aired on RT, a cable channel. You can watch the video online here: http://www.rttv.com/shows/crosstalk/sequestrating-profits-535/
The comment comes from Anthony Shaffer at about the 2:20 minute mark, when he makes the point that when it comes to the Government, a cut it not a cut but just a smaller increase.
All the fear mongering about people losing their jobs and the U.S. not being able to defend itself if these “Draconian” cuts are enacted is a bunch of crap. All both sides are really interested in is making sure their corporate and private welfare recipients continue to soak the American people until there’s nothing left.
The Military Industrial Complex is making hundreds of billions of dollars and thanks to the governments policy of having US military presence in every corner of the earth and perpetual war they will continue ravaging the American taxpayer until they have bled them completely dry which, I believe has already happened. There is really nothing left but a hollowed out shell of an economy and it will only take one major event until we realize a complete collapse.
Did you know that in the name of “National Security”, the US spends more on “defense” than the other top 13 industrial nations combined? We learned absolutely nothing from Rome or the Soviet Union about why empires always fail did we?
Wake up America! You’ve been suckered by both parties and neither democrats, republicans nor King Obama can save us. They will not do the right thing no matter what and if you have not yet figured that out then I suppose you’ll be surprised when it all comes crashing down around our heads.
So just remember, when you’re watching the night news and they are talking about the government spending cuts, a spending cut is not a cut. I’ll say it one more time in case you missed it. A Cut is NOT a Cut when it comes to government accounting methods.