Fooled US Once

Republican leadership in the United States House of Representatives has gone along with Democrats to sell the citizenry a bill of goods with a phony $38 billion reduction just agreed to for the Federal budget. Evidently, these are not by in large new cuts but mostly comprised of parts of earlier continuing resolutions, some accounting tricks with unspent but already appropriated funds including some of the stimulus money, and only two to five billion dollars of new real cuts. This must be measured against a multi-T trillion dollar budget for the Federal government that is actually nearly eight hundred billion dollars greater than last years behemoth. How can anyone credibly contend that there has been a budget cut when the Federal government continues to grow at an unprecedented pace that taxpayers simply can not afford? Sadly RINOs who infest the US Senate and include the new House leadership led by "weeping willow" Speaker of the House John Boehner (who postures as a conservative Republican but does not lead like one) have overwhelmed the TEA Party caucus to sell out that portion of voters who are serious about trying to save America. Note: After initial publication of this post, the Associated Press (not exactly a conservative mouthpiece) reported that the deficit will actually be reduced a mere $353 M million dollars for the Federal fiscal year. It seems much of the voting public has been played for suckers.