Obama’s Spending Freeze Doesn’t Go Nearly Far Enough: We Need Cuts in Spending, Not Temporary Freezes

President Obama made the news for proposing a spending freeze for a few years.  It’s expected to save $15 billion next year, then more the following years.  I saw a number of about $157 billion in the press release. 

Big fat hairy deal.

Today’s debt is over $12 trillion.  And the Obama Administration is projected to add another $9 trillion to our debt by the end of the decade.

Here’s a thought: We can make due with a $2.5 trillion budget instead of a $3.5 trillion.  Take the savings and pay down the debt.

NASA may have to take a hit; so should military projects that are billions over budget, and months behind schedule.

But under no circumstances should they weaken our Homeland Security defenses, nor cut the budgets for Iraq or Afghanistan until the troops are out of there.  The last thing we need is for the troops to be trapped there, with ammunition and fuel running out or their paychecks cut or stopped.

We CAN’T keep this up.