{"id":2793,"date":"2011-03-19T06:36:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T06:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2011-03-19T06:36:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T06:36:50","slug":"perspective_on_the_budget_deba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2793","title":{"rendered":"Perspective On The Budget Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes the most basic examples are the best.  This is one of them.  John Hinderaker posted an article at Power Line<\/a> yesterday that puts the budget debate in terms that I can understand.<\/p>\n

In the interest of science (of course), John went to McDonald’s and ordered a Big Mac Extra Value Meal.  He based his research on a Cato Institute report that commented on the ‘budget slashing’ Continuing Resolution recently passed:<\/p>\n

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“Federal spending has soared by more than $2,000,000,000,000 during the Bush-Obama years, pushing the burden of government up to $3,800,000,000,000, yet the reporters who put together this story said that an agreement to trim a trivially tiny slice of 2011 spending would “slash the budget.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“As Charlie Brown would say, good grief. This is the budgetary equivalent of going on a diet by leaving a couple of french fries in the bottom of the bag after bingeing on three Big Mac meals at McDonald’s.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

John decided to follow up on this concept.  John Hinderaker concluded:<\/p>\n

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“,,,If there are 570 calories in a large order of fries, and 87 fries per order, each french fry, on the average, contains 6.5 calories. One 633rd of the total calorie content of a Big Mac Extra Value Meal is 1,320\/633, or 2.1 calories. That equals almost exactly one-third of an average sized french fry.<\/em><\/p>\n

“So, consider: if you were to go on what the Democrats consider a starvation diet, and “slash” your calorie intake to exactly the same degree that the Republicans’ $6 billion cut has “slashed” the federal budget, you would do the following. Go to McDonalds and order a Big Mac Extra Value meal. Eat the Big Mac. Drink the Coke. Eat 86 of the 87 french fries. Carefully take the last fry and bite off two-thirds of it. Put the remaining one-third of one fry back in the bag.<\/em><\/p>\n

“If you seriously think that you have just “slashed” your diet, you are a Democrat. Most likely, an overweight Democrat.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

All this ruckus about budget cuts involves cuts that equal only one third of a french fry.  Good grief is right. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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