Cavuto: Cut the Notion We're Cutting Spending
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NEIL CAVUTO, HOST OF "YOUR WORLD": Finally, we really got to cut this out.
This notion we are cutting spending.
We are not.
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The president isn't.
Republicans aren't.
No one's being remotely draconian here.
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Because no one...and I mean no one is cutting.
The president isn't when he talks up wacking 4 trillion bucks off the debt in 12 years.
And Paul Ryan isn't when he brags about lopping six trillion off the very same debt in ten years.
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What both leave out is the debt will be higher when they're done.
Just not "as" high.
So that's what's really going on here, folks.
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These guys are talking about slowing the growth of the debt, not wiping out the debt.
There is a difference.
Don't get me wrong, I commend both sides for even taking on the issue.
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Just don't tell me this cutting is draconian...because on that, I will take issue.
...because we'll still have trillions more in debt under Paul Ryan's plan.
And trillions more in debt under the president's plan.
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Whether we just curb spending as Ryan wants.
Or curb spending and maybe raise taxes as well, as the president wants.
Still more debt when they're done. Not less debt.
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So if that's draconian, then I'm Darwin.
And we are reversing budget evolution.
Which we are.
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Because if we call slowing the growth in entitlements, savaging the elderly.
We are quickly digging our own grave.
Think of it this way.
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We'll still be in a hole
A deeper hole.
Our only consolation...not as deep a hole as we could have been.
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And that's draconian?
Sheesh...imagine if we actually really cut anything?
What would that be?
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Doomday-ian
No, we're already calling this that!
Enough of this.
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And that.
These politicians are killing me.