From CNN: What Obama's pledge to cut $100 million really means - Apr. 20, 2009:
"In essence the president has asked government agencies to trim the equivalent of .003% of the federal budget."To put this in perspective, suppose that I spend $100 on groceries a week. After a .003% cut I would be cutting back to $99.997 a week. Or in other words over the course of an entire year (52 weeks) of grocery shopping I would save 16 cents!
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Put another way:
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It is a tiny amount. But a better analogy would be that you have $100 to spend a week, but you already have committed (entitlements etc) to paying out $98. The savings, therefore must come from the $2 left over. (I made up the proportions, but you get the general idea).
Clearly $100M is not very much, but it is a little misleading to portray it as a percentage of the total federal budget.
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