Well, howdy there internet people? It's about again. So today we are going to talk about math,

Republican math and Democratic math and the budget. And we're going to talk about two percentage numbers they keep showing up

22% and 1% and we're going to talk about why at this point

Republicans and Democrats are two people separated by common

language. Okay so I had a whole bunch of questions about the 22% number and I had somebody ask of the

one percent number and I had somebody ask how a 1% increase is a cut

when they're talking about McCarthy's budget plan. So what we're going to do is we're

going to go through, explain where the 22% number comes from and then we're going

to talk about the Republican increase which if you don't know if you exist in a right-wing

echo chamber, you have probably never heard of the Okay, so what is the plan? The first part of the plan is to set the budget for

fiscal year 2024 at the same level as fiscal year

2022. That is 1.471 trillion dollars.

That's the plan.

That's the plan. Now they have promised

repeatedly they are not cutting defense spending at all. Assume they're telling the truth. Fiscal year 2023 defense spending. 885 billion

dollars more or less. You can get different numbers depending on how you

factor this, but it doesn't change the end result really. So you take that 885 billion and you subtract it from the $1.471 trillion. What do you have left for

non-defense spending? $586 billion. Okay? Now you have to look at current non-defense spending which is 756

billion. So if you're spending 756 now and you're going to start spending 586, what do you have a

22% reduction across the board? That's where the number comes from.

Okay, so now let's go to the 1% increase. First, it doesn't guarantee a 1% increase a year. It caps it at 1%.

And there are some people in the Democratic Party and liberal commentators who have said, well, that's actually a cut.

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