This morning, President Obama touted a new plan to streamline government that he promised would save $3 billion over ten years. If we take him at his word, that wouldn’t even be a rounding error in the $45.952 trillion 10-year budget he proposed last year. But since it’s NFL playoff season, I thought I’d use a football analogy to put this in perspective.
Obama’s budget proposal from last year represented about 15,317 times as much spending as the reforms he’s proposing today would save. This season, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees set the single-season passing record. Over the last three seasons combined, Brees has passed for an astounding 14,484 years. So, if at any point during that time period, a defense tackled one of his receivers for a loss of less than a yard, that defense can claim to have reduced his 3-season passing numbers by about the same as Obama is now claiming he’ll reduce the budget over the next decade.
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Not exactly a touchdown for taxpayers.
