State of the Union (1/27/10)

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Originally Posted by saden1

The military is always good for supplemental budget increase that's for sure. Is it possible to tell agencies your next check is going to be 5% less than what you expect? Yes. Is this the best way to do it? No. For a ship this big you have to plan for these things.

The biggest mistake Obama made was taking the Military, SS, Medicare/Medicaid budget cuts off the table. To tell you the truth, the whole thing is a gimmick no matter whether he does it now or next year as those programs account for 90% of the fucking budget.

There is so much room to cut spending its not even funny. Every agency every year if they have any money left over they don't give it back to the goverment they spend it so they won't have their budget slashed by that amount the following year. For example. If ship A has 2 million left in its budget close to the end of the year they rush around to spend this money. If they don't the following year their budget will get slashed by 2 million. This is just a crazy way to run anything and the goverment should provide incentives to any agency that can reduce it budget in the form of bonuses or something like that. If any business ran itself like the goverment they would go under in no time and its something that needs fixing.