Dear Mr President:
I read today that you have ordered your cabinet to cut a whopping $100 million from the $3.5 trillion federal budget!
I'm so impressed by this sacrifice that I have decided to do the same thing with my personal budget...
I spend about $2000 a month on groceries, medicine, bills, etc, but it's time to get out the budget cutting axe, go line by line through my expenses... and go to work.
And you've truly inspired me: I'm going to cut my spending by the SAME ratio as your proposed cuts... that is, -1/35,000 of my total budget... or 0.00285%
After doing the math, it looks like instead of spending $2000 a month, I'm going to have to scrape-by on a mere $1999.94 now...
That's right... I had to cut back by a whole six cents... but that's what sacrifice is all about.
Right, sir?
Right, sir?
Kind Regards,
John Q. Taxpayer
Pookie's Toons h/t Roberto