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No. It’s $33 billion cut from the INCREASE from 2010 levels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_federal_budget
http://budget.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=223391

Given the data below, it’s clear that estimated budget spending has INCREASED by $270 billion from 2010 levels according to Obama’s own updated 2011 projections. Therefore, proposed cuts of $33 billion, would only serve to reduce the INCREASE in projected spending from $270 billion to $237 billion.

2010 Federal Budget:

Mandatory spending: $2.01 trillion (6.3%)
Discretionary spending: $1.37 trillion (13.1%)
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Total spending: $3.55 trillion (+12.9%)
Total revenue: $2.38 trillion
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Deficit: $1.17 trillion

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2011 Federal Budget (estimated*):

Mandatory spending: $2.69 trillion (33.8%)
Discretionary spending: $1.13 trillion (-17.5%)
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Total spending: $3.82 trillion (7.6%)
Total revenue: $2.17 trillion
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Deficit: $1.65 trillion

*On February 14, 2011, President Obama released his 2012 Federal Budget. The report updated the projected 2011 deficit to $1.645 trillion. This is based on estimated revenues of $2.173 trillion and outlays of $3.818 trillion.

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Either we need a government shutdown of all non-essential services (especially nation-building overseas), or a more serious $500+ billion cut. And we can begin with the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Libya. We spend $1 trillion per year just on warfare alone. Utterly absurd.

We cannot survive trillion dollar annual deficits. Period.

When an institution that was supposed to represent the people gets out of control, there is only one solution: starve it to bring it back inline to what our Founding Fathers envisioned a government should be: providing essential services only. Certainly not a monolithic behemoth that has it’s hands in every aspect of our lives.

Let’s change the frame of the debate and all start pointing at opportunity in the programs that we like best. The reality is that if all of the discretionary spending stopped, went to $0, the entitlement programs (referred to as mandatory spending) consume all of the government revenue.

I do not disagree that the defense budget is out of control (my pet peeve is foreign aid and bases in 130 countries) and I agree that we need to get out of the quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan. The F-22 is much more nefarious than you have highlighted. It is spread out across 40 states – 80% of the Senate has direct constituent interest even before the special interest lobbyists get their fingers in.

The alternative engine program is something beyond the F-22 program itself. But yea you have the general idea of it.

Remember that $553 billion dollars of that entitlement spending(unemployment) is temporary and a direct result of the downturn, most of this will go away with time.

As to Medicare and Medicaid, their isn’t anything wrong with the programs themselves. As their problems are directly caused by the explosion of medical costs that are industry wide, and a good chunk of those costs are a direct consequence of the fee for service multi-payer private health delivery system. Medicare atleast has managed splendidly as its cost growth has been much lower then that of private insurance(a 4% growth rate as opposed to 6-7% from private plans).

As always I suggest single payer, it is the best way to both lower costs and control growth. Tho an All-payer system might work as well(France or Germany are examples), but I am not entirely sure American corporations are capable of working in that sort of setup.

Who’s kidding who? With trillion dollar deficits being planned for by the Progressives, including the Administration, they’ve got their hooks in the budget already. They’ve already won the dollar amount. Now, it’s a holding action to keep the loot they’ve taken.

Hello Everyone,
What is this debate about? Well we all know it’s about an ancient animosity one party still hold onto. It’s about staying in power at any expense, and by promoting hatred, fear and inciting anger. They want to divide our nation as a means to succeed. After almost eleven years we are still playing into our enemies hands, and that’s why we’ve lost all creditability. Its not about restoring America, Its about settling the scores! Who really wants to rehash this insanity? The party who was actually responsible the surplus and economic prosperity is the same party that spent irresponsibly for most of the last decade and, now holds our government for political ransom. Shamefully they are the same people responsible for bullets, bailouts, and bad tax brakes that lead us down this despicable path. Just my thoughts on the matter! Thanks John