Tiny Cuts, Big Complaints

Reason Magazine has an article on Tiny Cuts, Big Complaints. The first paragraph points out that Federal spending will be about $3.8 trillion, whereas the cuts are $61 billion--yet people are complaining about it. I suspect that part of the problem is that "61" looks large compared to "3.8". So instead, say that we're going for 61 billion in cuts out of a 3,800 billion budget.

Three thousand eight hundred billion dollars. This year.