Congressman Billy Long Restates His $100 Billion in Cuts Promise

From Twitter today, Billy Long must realize a lot of conservatives aren't happy with the news coming out of Washington. A lot of criticism is coming from Tea Party members as well as politicians like Senator Rand Paul about how little the Republicans are doing to cut federal spending. As you should know by know, Representative Paul Ryan introduced $32 billion in spending cuts for the budget the Republicans are working. This is far less than the $100 billion voters were promised.

It must have Billy Long a little concerned as he tweets today:

We're working hard with one starting goal in mind...... The $100 Billion WILL BE CUT - we promised - we'll deliver! This is only a start.


Excuse me Congressman Long, but when you spoke to the Springfield News-Leader about these cuts, you acted like there was a plan in place. Now you are telling us that you are just getting started... Meanwhile, the clock keeps ticking at the United States government spends $6.85 million per minute, which means it won't be long until we hit the debt ceiling.



If you look at Congressman Long's schedule, he has visited with babies, threw fundraisers, traveled to California to the Reagan library, met with the Juvenile Diabetes charity, creating enemies lists and wasted the FBI's time, and rushed to every camera and microphone that was offered so he could deliver a sound bite. If there was never a plan like you suggested in the Springfield News-Leader, Mr. Long, don't you think your time could be better spent studying where legitimate cuts could be made so a plan could be made?

Meanwhile, in the Senate, Rand Paul, who took office the same day Billy Long did, has come up with over $500 billion in spending cuts while Long, Ryan, and the rest of the House Republicans drag their feet presenting voters with $32 billion in spending cuts. Let me put this in perspective for Mr. Long and the rest of America.

Currently the United States owes over $14,000,000,000,000. Look at all those zeros--$14 trillion. While Rand Paul has already come up with a plan that cuts $500,000,000,000 in spending, House Republicans are ignoring the junior Senator from Kentucky and presenting a meager $32,000,000,000. All the while, politicians like Long is promising us they will eventually get to the $100,000,000,000 cuts they promised. My question is why isn't the House Republicans considering the spending cuts in Rand Paul's plan rather than, like Billy Long is, wasting time on Twitter promising us more are coming and that we should be happy with the $32,000,000,000 in spending cuts. Who do these House Republicans like Long think they are fooling?

Last month, CBS reported the United States government spends $6.85 million every minute. Let's plug that information to the Republicans proposed $32 billion in spending cuts.

Ryan's spending cuts would be like shutting the government down and not spending anything at all for 4671.5 minutes.

4671 minutes equals a total of 77.86 hours.

77.86 hours equals a total of a little less than three and one quarter days.

That's right, all Paul Ryan's proposal does is cut government spending for less than one percent for the entire year.

Now let's take a look at John Boehner's promise to cut $100 billion in government spending. $100 billion is a little more than three times the amount of the current proposed spending cuts of $32 billion. So basically, they are talking the equivalent of the government not operating for ten days, or roughly three percent.

This is why, considering the $14 trillion deficit, we need to push Boehner and Ryan out of this equation. Someone in the House, and has to be the House needs to look at Rand Paul's plan and introduce it to the House floor. We are talking 15 times more in spending cuts than the current cuts Representative Ryan is proposing. What do you think will do more to lower the national debt?

Let's put Paul Ryan aside. Show some leadership Mr. Long. Show Washington you are truly fed up, and demand House Republicans consider the Paul plan to deliver true spending cuts. It's obvious you guys in the House never had a plan--you just threw a number out, that when you really look at it in the overall scheme of things, isn't significant at all.