The 'Balanced Approach' Is an Unbalanced Lie

"The spending cuts offered in the balanced approach are not real cuts.  They are Washington cuts, which are actually just decreases in hoped-for increases.  If the administration wishes to spend baseline plus 15%, and agrees to spend only baseline plus 5%, everyone takes credit for a 33% cut in spending.  Since the baseline assumes an increase each year automatically, any decrease in the "assumed" increase is counted as a "cut."  Obviously it isn't a cut at all, but rather a healthy increase -- but who's counting?  Certainly not the media."     [American Thinker]