Video: Obama Cuts $100 Million

One hundred MEEEEELLION dollars! Mwahahaha(?).

Story at HotAir.

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Comments

[Folly]

Could he freakin' spare it?

[BrewFan]

Excellent cuffy!

[Mike O]

If they spent more than 15 minutes talking about this, they already spent it.

[Jeffersonian]

The federal government spends $10 billion a day. Cut $100 million from it, and you've reduced today's expenditures by 1%.

Wow, what a meataxe this guy swings.

[MCPO Airdale]

Does this mean Michelle will not have a full-time make-up artist, stylist, hairdresser and translator of Mao's Little Red Book??

[Georg Felis]

One hundred million dollars. Three hundred million people. That's what, about a can of pop each?

[Craig Scott]

i laughed until i stopped

[Richard]

That was funny =)

But...Obama did say he wants _each_ member of Congress to cut 100 million dollars. There are 100 members of Congress.

That means Obama asked _Congress_ to cut one hundred hundred million dollars...or ten billion.

So he asked congress to cut 10 billion dollars -- given the trillion dollar budget, it's not huge, but it's really not that laughable either, at least to me.

[Bill Woods]

In fairness, Obama seems to be asking *each* Cabinet member to cut $100M. So, if there are ~20 in the Cabinet ... Okay, it's still peanuts, but hey.

[Mister Snitch]

Dr. Evil for president!

[shoey]

i guess the Cabinet Members will just have to do without their Vulcano Lairs until next year...

[bbbeard]

You (or someone equally creative) needs to throw in that line from the first Rocky movie: Stallone says, "I must have had $20 stolen from that locker over the years. It doesn't sound like much, but it adds up!"

BBB

[Some Guy]

He sure is great at the symbolism, isn't he? The substance, not so much.

[jvon]

The real question is wtf is each member of Congress doing spending $100M that they don't need to spend?

All these people should be run out of town.

[Snackeater]

Imagine going to a car dealership to buy a new car. The salesman tells you the price of the car is $35,000. You tell him you can't afford that much and get up to leave. He stops you and says "just to show you how serious I am about selling you this car, I'll knock a dollar off the price." Insulting? Yes. But that's the same ratio as proposing $100 million in cuts from a $3.5 trillion budget. Gimme a break.

[Samuel -- Texas deer hunting fanatic]

We have a long way to go before we make a dent in this one!