By Raquel Guillory, Director of Communications
Yesterday, the Governor unveiled a fiscally responsible budget that continues record cuts while protecting our Triple A bond rating and investing in key priorities like education and job creation.
By using a balanced approach, we’re on the verge of eliminating the $1.7 billion deficit that we inherited in 2007. These graphs show a few of the ways that we’ve been able to cut spending.
At the same time, we’ve been able to do more with less. Even while tightening our belt and making fiscally responsible choices, we have been achieving results:
- Maryland has recovering jobs at the ninth fastest rate of any state in the nation;
- Maryland has the #1 public schools in the country for the fifth year in a row;
- Maryland has done more than any state in the nation in recent years to hold down the cost of college; and
- Maryland has driven down violent crime to the lowest level in more than thirty years.
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Not a bad job, but there is more to the story...sometimes it's just geography.
TOTAL lies. When the next budget spends MORE than the last budget, THERE IS NO CUTTING in spending. It is cutting the planned INCREASE in spending. Too bad the sheep believe this newspeak. To CUT SPENDING requires this budget to be LESS than the last. Do these lying fools beLIEve themselves?
Here is a good source of the real numbers not the propaganda from the boy wonder. http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Maryland_state_budget
Democratic leaders say they have made more than $7 billion in cuts over that span by eliminating select programs and limiting projected spending increases - resulting in budgets that have grown, but not by as much as originally planned. This has often raised the ire of Republicans who argue these aren’t cuts at all, and that real cuts can only come from reducing overall year-to-year spending. “It’s not the same as a cut,” said Delegate Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio, Talbot Republican. “Most people have not experienced an increase in their income, yet it’s costing them more to live. We as a state government should be sensitive to that.” www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/7/budget-divide-an-issue-of-cuts/#ixzz2Ik99f7ub
http://www.governor.maryland.gov/documents/retirementreform.pdf Pension liabilities: 2002 95% FUNDED 2010 64% FUNDED 2012 (projected) 60% FUNDED OVER $11,000,000,000 in unfunded liabilities. And that was in 2008. http://heartland.org/policy-documents/passing-buck-marylands-unfunded-liabilities-state-and-local-retirees
President Obama ordered the cabinet to cut $100,000,000.00 ($100 million) from the $3,500,000,000,000.00 ($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 $2,000 a month on groceries, household expenses, medicine, utilities, etc., but it's time to get out the budget cutting axe, go through my expenses, and cut back. I'm going to cut my spending at exactly the same ratio (1/35,000) of my total budget. After doing the math, it looks like instead of spending $2,000 a month, I'm going to have to cut that number by six cents. Yes, I'm going to have to get by with $1999.94, but that's what sacrifice is all about. It will be difficult but, I'll just have to look very hard to find something to do without that costs only six cents.....!!!! Did this President actually think no one would do the math? Is it only me or does he and congress understand how idiotic this $100 million cut is in a $3.5 trillion budget?
First, it was 100m PER cabinet post. Second, it was specifically regarding administrative costs. Third, this was back when Obama first took office. Back when the emphasis was on jump-starting growth to get us out of the free-falling recession, not on further burdening the economy. Obviously, there have been a number much more substantial cuts since then. You must think we're all supremely stupid, though it was nice to read a comment from you that wasn't completely filled with misspellings and poor grammar.
Get it? It's called relativity - you're complaining that 2013 spending wasn't cut relative to 2012 spending. No one is suggesting or claiming that that's the case - even the graph in the article shows general fund spending has grown 2% - what's being rightly claimed is that spending for, e.g., 2013 is below what it was previously projected to be thanks to cuts made over the last few years.
It is a FLAT OUT LIE to say Maryland's budget has been cut. Anyone who believes it is free to do so and I am free to call them failed in basic math.