Did you Hear that Emanuel Cleaver is Tough on Spending?

Neither did we, until we saw his somewhat unlikely sounding "SAVINGS SPOTLIGHT". According to Cleaver:

"You asked for more efforts to reduce the deficit, crack down on wasteful government spending, and impose fiscal discipline. The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (enacted into law), according to the CBO, will cut the deficit by $19 billion over the next 10 years."

Small talk, considering that the budget deficit for 2010 is $1.17 trillion - and that even if we could count all of those savings today, it would take more than 70 similar announcements to balance this year's budget. To eliminate the national debt completely, we'd require thousands of "SAVINGS SPOTLIGHTS" from Emanuel Cleaver - and that's assuming he could figure out a way to balance the budget, which he clearly hasn't.

It's not news that there are serious and systemic problems with government over-spending that won't be resolved by (a) voting for massive spending increases and (b) making negligible spending cuts. Emanuel Cleaver isn't even using a scalpel to try to cut the budget. He's using tweezers.

News flash: That's not going to work.

The stunning effect of Cleaver's budget discipline.

If anything, Cleaver's savings spotlights show that he doesn't have a grasp of how bad our budget is or the steps that would actually be needed to balance it.

Comments

[Michele Thompson]

Vote for Jacob Turk, give Cleaver his pink slip. The man is either totally deluded or incredibly dishonest. Either way, not a good thing.