Let us look at the budget.
They keep talking about these cuts that we are going to have.
Can you tell me how we can go from an annual budget of less than a trillion in 1987 to over a 3 trillion dollars in 2012 with a budget
sort fall each year of the past four years of 1.2 trillion if there
is any cuts. A little lesson the way the federal government works on
what is call baseline budgeting. What that means is no matter how
short the money that is being brought into treasury each year even if
it does not pay for everything that is due each year, each department
in the government will get a least a around a 4 percent of an
increase. Now in good years with more money being taken in to the
treasury each department could get less say a 8% percentage increase
in their budget. Then the very next year not as much money is taken
in to the treasury, then that year that department only gets a 4
percent increase, still an increase just not as much as the year
before. These clowns tell us they cut that budget to that department
4 percent. Please someone tell me just how the hell that is a cut.
The budget still grows each and every year, where is the cut. In a
post name Baseline Budget I posted an article that explain baseline
budget and where it came from.
Look how many times they
tell us anymore that if we do not do this or that the whole world
will collapse. Then out of thin air we are saved by something they do
or say. George Bush said I had to abandon my free market principles
to save the free market. Listen to that statement is that not the
dumbest thing we heard but we went right along with it in the
Republican party. Oh my they save us and took more money,dump in to
special interest groups and we though they were just the best they
saved us, along putting money putting our money in their cronies
pockets. Now before you say I didn’t agree with it, well what the
hell did you do to stop it. Oh I know we elected Obama, that will
show them. This president says if we don’t pass the 800 billion
stimulus package then the whole world will fall into ruin.
Unemployment will jump to 15 to 20 percent . It was for green jobs,
roads, shovels ready jobs, it was going to save us again. Well what
happen to all the jobs. Oh I know you do not create jobs dishing out
the money to special interest groups. They pass health care, tax
increases, and so many other thing because of they keep saying we
have too. Once these things are enacted we find out it is just more
money going to certain groups. What do we do, we reelected the same
people to keep right on screwing us. Boy we showed them didn’t we. I
would think it is time to put a very tight hold on the jokers we have
in Washington to get us away from this crap. If they do not want to end
base line budgeting then it is time to swept the place clean and start with
people that believe in God and the constitution.
Remember trust God not the government.
Base line budgeting from Wikipeda
Baseline budgeting is an accounting method the United States Federal Government uses to develop a budget for future years. Baseline budgeting uses current spending levels as the “baseline” for establishing future funding requirements and assumes future budgets will equal the current budget times the inflation rate times the population growth rate.
[1] Twice a year—generally in January and August—CBO prepares baseline projections of federal revenues, outlays, and the surplus or deficit. Those projections are designed to show what would happen if current budgetary policies were continued as is—that is, they serve as a benchmark for assessing possible changes in policy. They are not forecasts of actual budget outcomes, since the Congress will undoubtedly enact legislation that will change revenues and outlays. Similarly, they are not intended to represent the appropriate or desirable levels of federal taxes and spending.[2] The genesis of baseline budget projections can be found in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
That act required the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to prepare
projections of federal spending for the upcoming fiscal year based on a continuation of the existing level of governmental services. It also required the newly established Congressional Budget Office to prepare five-year projections of budget authority, outlays, revenues, and the surplus or deficit. OMB published its initial current-services budget projections in November 1974, and CBO’s five-year projections first appeared in January 1976. Today’s baseline budget projections are very much like those prepared more than two decades ago, although they now span 10 years instead of five.
The Budget Act was silent on whether to adjust estimates of discretionary appropriations for anticipated changes in inflation. Until 1980, OMB’s projections excluded inflation adjustments for discretionary programs. CBO’s projections, however, assumed that
appropriations would keep pace with inflation, although CBO has also published projections without these so-called discretionary inflation adjustments. CBO’s budget projections took on added importance in 1980 and 1981, when they served as the baseline
for computing spending reductions to be achieved in the budget reconciliation process. The reconciliation instructions contained in the fiscal year 1982 budget resolution
(the so-called Gramm-Latta budget) required House and Senate committees
to reduce outlays by a total of $36 billion below baseline levels, but each
committee could determine how those savings were to be achieved. The CBO baseline has been used in every year since 1981 for developing budget resolutions and measuring compliance with reconciliation instructions.
The Deficit Control Act of 1985 provided the first legal definition of baseline.
For the most part, the act defined the baseline in conformity with
previous usage. If appropriations had not been enacted for the upcoming fiscal year,
the baseline was to assume the previous year’s level without any adjustment for inflation.
In 1987, however, the Congress amended the definition of the baseline so that discretionary appropriations would be adjusted to keep pace with inflation. Other technical changes, annual increase of now approximately 3% plus inflation, to the definition of the baseline were enacted in 1990, 1993, and 1997.
Presently, the [automatic annual] Baseline Budgeting increase is about 7%. Baseline budget projections increasingly became the subject of political debate and controversy during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and more recently during the 2011 debt
limit debate. Some critics contend that baseline projections create a bias in favor of spending by assuming that federal spending keeps pace with inflation and other factors driving the growth of entitlement programs. Changes that merely slow the growth of federal spending programs have often been described as cuts in spending, when in reality they are actually reductions in the rate of spending growth.
There have been attempts to eliminate the baseline budget concept and
replace it with zero based budgeting, which is the opposite of baseline budgeting. Zero based budgeting requires that all spending must be re-justified each year or it will be eliminated from the budget regardless of previous spending levels.
According to the Government Accountability Office, a Baseline is as
follows: Baseline “An estimate of spending, revenue, the deficit or surplus, and the
public debt expected during a fiscal year under current laws and current policy. The baseline is a benchmark for measuring the budgetary effects of proposed changes in revenues and spending. It assumes that receipts and mandatory spending will continue or expire in the future as required by law and that the future funding for discretionary programs will equal the most recently enacted appropriation, adjusted for inflation. Under
the Budget Enforcement Act (BEA), to expire at the end of fiscal year 2006, the baseline is defined as the projection of current-year levels of new budget authority, outlays, revenues, and the surplus or deficit into the budget year and out-years based on laws enacted through the applicable date.
CBO Baseline Projected levels of governmental receipts (revenues), budget authority,
and outlays for the budget year and subsequent fiscal years, which is now approximately 6% increase pr fiscal-year, assuming generally that current policies remain the same, except as directed by law. The baseline is described in the Congressional Budget Office’s
(CBO) annual report for the House and Senate Budget Committees, The Budget and Economic Outlook, which is published in January. The baseline, by law, includes projections for 5 years, but at the request of the Budget Committees, CBO has provided such projections for 10 years. In most years the CBO baseline is revised in conjunction with CBO’s analysis of the President’s budget, which is usually issued in March, and again during the summer.
The “March” baseline is the benchmark for measuring the budgetary effects of proposed legislation under consideration by Congress.”
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