but, really, you know, if you understand the baseline budgeting, it may not even be that 2.4% because you re really cutting an increase of the spending that s going to occur, so, we need to go to a zero-based budgeting system. that s one of the first things that we need to do and once again, comes back to leadership. you know, it s very troubling when i see the president and others that are going out and trying to scare and intimidate the american people. that s not what leadership does. leadership recognizes that you have a problem, they come up with viable solutions and they tell the american people that we re going to get this under control to protect the future for our children and grandchildren and that s what s most important. coneman, always a pleasure. nice to see you. the congressman says one place to cut spending is afghanistan. right now, the united states is spending, sending, 28 million dollars ooeach day to afghanistan that s in addition to the money to support our
to make, if this administration is having problems with these cuts, we have a real disaster here. you see, i he agree with you, i actually support the mac penny plan, it s very simple. everybody can understand it. you cut for six years, you keep current spending revels, meaning what we spend this year, no rates of incries, no baseline budgeting, cut a penny out of every dollar across the board. right. every year for six years, we d balance the budget. no question about it. look what s going to happen. sean: this is nothing compared to if, first of all, if it happens exactly the way it s planned it s not going to have anywhere near the impact that all of these people are trying to create armageddon are saying. but if you really want to avoid any problems you spread these cuts out a little bit and find programs that you can get rid of. every agent, including the military, there are places where you can cut without
1.10 trillion in cuts over ten years. for growth. so every year, we have the thing called baseline budgeting and i ll let you explain it to people. the budget is going up. several percentage points a year and we re slowing down the rate of growth. and now, in the first year, there s a little bit of dip in spending, and some budgets they want to look at, but interestingly, all of these budgets went up 17%, under obama and now they re going to come down 2.6% and still above when he came it into office and i present add plan it that would allow us to do this without any layoffs. we have 100,000 people who retire every year, don t replace them. he we pay federal employees 16% more than private employees, equallize the pay. cut out half of the foreign aid and boom, you ve got your sequester and nobody not laid off. i was disappointed, you have an amendment that would have prevented the u.s. from, we re paying for the f-16 s and tanks and 1.5 billion, going to morsi, the muslim
1.10 trillion in cuts over ten years. for growth. so every year, we have the thing called baseline budgeting and i ll let you explain it to people. the budget is going up. several percentage points a year and we re slowing down the rate of growth. and now, in the first year, there s a little bit of dip in spending, and some budgets they want to look at, but interestingly, all of these budgets went up 17%, under obama and now they re going to come down 2.6% and still above when he came it into office and i present add plan it that would allow us to do this without any layoffs. we have 100,000 people who retire every year, don t replace them. he we pay federal employees 16% more than private employees, equallize the pay. cut out half of the foreign aid and boom, you ve got your sequester and nobody not laid off. i was disappointed, you have an amendment that would have prevented the u.s. from, we re paying for the f-16 s and tanks and 1.5 billion, going to morsi, the muslim
it is important that people know when you hear this is massive across-the-board cut this is cutting gross. the pentagon budget would grow by $10.5 in the next decade to 19.4% by the budget this year. you get to a baseline budgeting that we talk about. people don t us it. you are cutting the rate of growth, not cutting, cutting. this is what the cbo says it will look like. spending even with the sequestration which is $1.2 trillion in spending restraint in the next decade the spend willing go to 5.9 billion. so we will grow the revenues by $2.1 trillion but we will grow spending by $2.4 trillion. wen the sequest tration cut and the budget deal that cuts