Letter: A tiny slice of our debt

Larry Ellis, Abilene

Just noticed that our president in his effort to find common ground in the budget fight offered to cut $100 million from spending. Sounds like a lot of money, and therefore maybe a reasonable offer. I suppose he thinks we are all too stupid to do the math, but it looks like this.

The budget is $3.5 trillion, so he is suggesting cutting the spending by 1/35,000 of the budget.

So for numbers that might make more sense to you and I, if you reduced a $2,000 budget by the same amount it would be $1999.94. Yep, a whole 6 cents worth, and that folks is the problem!

He's not serious about reducing spending, just raising revenue!