04-06-2013, 01:39 PM
Spock wrote:
[quote=samintx]
I believe the sequester is not cutting but not letting depts (govmt spending) GROW.
You can believe that the moon is made of cream cheese but it doesn't make it so.
Try reading the text of the BUDGET CONTROL ACT OF 2011
I think she is going by the idea that when you look the sequestration budget reduction in total, what it does is reduce the increase in the budget. It's a semantic thing that a great many conservatives insist is THE right way to use the term "cuts". Something is not a budget cut if all it does is reduce the increase in that budget. IOW, if a budget is less than it would have been, but greater than it was, then it's not really a budget cut to their way of thinking. This basically semantic issue seems to take on earthshaking importance for many conservatives for some reason. To be fair, liberals sometimes get hung up on the semantics of certain terms, too.
But that is all moot in this context because she said, "...not cutting but not letting depts (govmt spending) GROW." Once again, she's not taking into account that the sequestration budget reductions are not fungible and that many programs are exempt so that many departments are facing budget reductions of several percent - and those are budget cuts even under the semantics they insist on.