Posted by
grad_1986 on Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:37:46 PM
First we had Einstein Relativity that said time, mass, velocity is all relative to the observer's velocity. Then we had Moral Relativity, which said that there were no moral absoluates and the truth is relative to the person espousing the truth. Now we have Obama Relativity which says the size of the spending or cutting is relative to the administrations view on government. This was recently illustrated during an Obama press conference with Robert Gibbs. Gibbs was trying to make the argument that the $100 million dollars being cut by the administration (which actually wasn't a cut at all....just moving the money from one area to another) was LARGE if viewed by the average taxpayer, but maybe not that big by comparison to others in Washington. But this same person, Gibbs , just weeks ago was making the argument that the $8 BILLION dollars in pork was SMALL in comparison to the $800 BILLION dollar stimulus bill.
Do they think we are a bunch of dopes? Yes, America's math scores are pretty bad when compared to other countries, but I think the average American knows the difference between 100 Million and 8 Billion. Also, while the human mind may have a hard time grasping what a TRILLION dollars looks like (although Glenn Beck did an excellant job of doing it on his show a few weeks ago), we do know that there are quite a few extra zeroes in a TRILLION verses a MILLION.
If I were Robert Gibbs I would just resign from my post. To be asked by my boss to try to explain how cutting such a small pitence from the budget constitutes "going through the budget line by line and removing programs that do not work" (Obama's promise during his DNC acceptance speech) is a ridiculous request.