quite laughable, I think

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Yes....I am angry.  I'm angry at the government as a whole.  Will I be angry if Obama wins.....no.  I will be very upset though because I feel he lacks so much and his character should be investigated instead of swept under the rug. 

I'm sure there will be some people who might throw a wrench into things just so Obama would look bad.  But that goes both ways and to suggest that is just something pubs would do is ridiculous.  The democrats have been the majority in congress and they have done jack sh1t here.  They keep talking about changing things but they won't change things and actually do anything until one of their own gets in office because they surely don't want Bush to get credit for doing something good. 

Also, I do believe it will be more likely that Obama and his supporters will raise holy he11 if Obama should lose.  The race card will be thrown up into the air and I fear riots may break out.  I do believe that there are people who will strictly NOT vote for Obama because he is black, but that doesn't define everyone voting against Obama.  There are just as many people voting for Obama just because he is black and that isn't right either but it goes both ways.  Just look at those video clips of Wright and Flager talking about blacks superiority and how whitey is evil and look at all those people cheering, standing up, and agreeing with those statements.  Those are going to be the people to cause major destruction and start riots if Obama should lose and that is really scary.

We can't change what happens whatever it may be.  I just hope and pray that both sides keep a cool head and don't do anything seriously stupid. No matter what happens we still have to stick together and try to make a better country for ourselves.

So - you think it's impressive that Obama plans to ask his department heads to cut $100,000,000 from their budgets?  Let's put aside for a moment the question of why he's asking them for cuts at all when he's the one who says that MORE government spending is the solution to our economic crisis.

Obama is crowing about this because he knows that Americans don't know how to translate "huge" numbers into percentages, and also that Americans have grown used to hearing numbers in the $trillions.  I mean - millions, billions, trillions all sound pretty much alike!   Let's prove him wrong, shall we?

If Obama were asking for $100 million to be cut from a $3.5 billion budget, it would represent 1/35th of that budget.  1/35 is about 2.86%.  So even on a $3.5 billion budget this wouldn't be much.

But wait.  Obama's budget is $3.5 TRILLION, which is 1000 times larger. (A trillion is 1000 times larger than a billion.)  Conversely, that makes $100 million a thousand times smaller of a percentage of the budget.  In other words, we're not even talking about 2.86%, but one-thousandths of 2.86%.  Here's what that looks like:   0.00286%.

In other words, if Obama made NEW cuts of $100,000,000 from his budget every day for over 300 days, he still wouldn't have even cut 1% from his budget.  So you may now be forgiven if you're underwhelmed by Obama's $100 million budget cut. 

 It's kinda like someone crowing about how they've reduced their carbon footprint by disconnecting their doorbell.  And this little object lesson showing how little $100,000,000 is compared to Mr. Obama's budget also gives you a little bit better idea just how disgustingly gargantuan his budget really is.