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FAKE BUDGET CUTS? ?In our age of trillion-dollar budgets and deficits, $100 million is a rounding e?

By Glenn Reynolds

FAKE BUDGET CUTS? “In our age of trillion-dollar budgets and deficits, $100 million is a rounding error at a Department of Agriculture regional office.”

UPDATE: Reader Jeff Scott writes: “Since the President is selling this as a typical household cutting costs, 100 million dollars of a nominal 1 trillion dollar budget is equivalent of a family making $75,000 forgoing two cups of coffee IN A YEAR. Some budget choices.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: A reader emails: “Cutting $100 milllion from the budget is easy, just lock John Murtha in a closet for a week.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).