{"id":22169,"date":"2014-03-07T06:17:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T11:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22169"},"modified":"2014-03-07T06:17:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T11:17:36","slug":"phantom-spending-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22169","title":{"rendered":"Phantom Spending Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the biggest scams in Washington is something called baseline budgeting.\u00a0 It is a way for Congress<\/a> to claim that they are making spending cuts<\/a> while increasing the amount of the federal budget<\/a>. It is actually a rather clever use of the language to mislead the American<\/a> public. Hopefully the public is beginning to get wise. The budget recently announced by President Obama<\/a> and the way it is being reported by most of the press is an amazing example of political doublespeak.<\/p>\n

Yesterday the Washington Examiner<\/a> posted an article explaining the real numbers<\/a> behind the President’s budget and the fact that in the stories in most of the media, the exact numbers are not being reported. All that is being written is that the President’s budge represents a reduction in government spending<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell:<\/p>\n

...in the current year<\/a>, the federal government is expected to spend $3.77 trillion. With all the spending cuts being talked about, a reasonable person<\/a> might assume that spending next year will be down a bit. But it’s not. In fact, the president’s budget calls for spending $3.90 trillion in 2015. That’s approximately $230 billion more than this year. It’s not a one-year aberration either. Spending increases are projected every single year for the next decade and beyond.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s hard to write that the president’s budget is cutting spending by $600 billion while also reporting numbers showing spending going in the opposite direction.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sadly, Washington reporters have chosen to overcome this difficulty by leaving the real numbers out of their stories. That’s a huge problem. We can reasonably expect politicians to spin the numbers and hide the truth because that’s what they do. However, in a free society with a free press, we should be able to count on journalists to report the facts rather than the spin. Unfortunately, we can’t.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Until the average voter gets wise to this sort of journalistic spin, we can expect government spending to increase. This is a game played by both political parties and by journalists. The Washington insiders are not fighting about cutting the budget–they are fighting over who gets to spend the money. Until America elects fiscal conservatives to office, Washington will continue to drive the country into bankruptcy.<\/p>\n

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