Federal Budget Lies, Distortions and Mismanagement

Dems First to Blink

The sequester, we're told, is automatic budget cuts which budget managers cannot control.  They are mandatory and deep and painful.

The truth is that the FAA budget, as if the congress actually passed a budget, increased 4% over last year.  That is correct, you read that right.  A 4% increase instead of an 8% increase, which was to be before the sequester took effect.  And now we learn that the FAA cannot function on 4% more money than last year and must furlough 47,000 employees.

This is going on all over the federal agencies and departments across this land.  Furloughs.  Temporarily taking days off without pay for many employees to avoid not paying them, and thus saving budget dollars which were, ahem, cut.

Mathematics learned in elementary school taught us that if A > B, then A > B.  This year the amount of money in your coffers to spend (A), is greater than the amount in your coffers last year (B), then you have more money, not less.  Therefore, your budget was not cut.