My husband and I have decided to follow the President’s example and sacrifice along with him.Biting the bullet on expenses, the President ordered the cabinet to cut a whopping $100 million from the $3.5 trillion federal budget!
We’re so impressed by this sacrifice that my husband and I have decided to do the same thing with our personal budget. We spend about $2000 a month on our house payment, groceries, clothing, bills, etc for our family. But now, it’s time to roll up our sleeves, get out the budget cutting ax and go line by line through our total expenses, and start chopping away.
We’re going to cut our monthly spending at exactly the same ratio (1/35,000) as that of our leaders in Washington. After doing the math, it looks like instead of spending $2000 a month; we’re going to have to cut that number by six cents! Yes, we’re going to have to somehow get by with only $1999.94, but let’s face it, that’s what sacrifice is all about. We’ll just have to learn to do more with less – We’ll have to simply learn to do without some things, that are, frankly, luxuries.
What a country!