larger than some people think.us in one of the things that's gotten etcentralist the geometrical m groblem of increasing spending n when you increase spending its 7% a year for example for tenf years you double the size of government just like your bank account doubles the 7% intereste compounded. reducing but when you're reducing s spending the sameam thie tng oct $61 billion the reduction in the baseline if there were no more s reductions over ten years builtw into the baseline would result in about $850 billion savings in ten years almost a trillion dollars. a 612 billion-dollar cut. a it does make a difference.nifica it does make is a difference and significant. but president obama's plan, the senate democratic plan who doesp almost nothing. f proposes as i understand it e 6%, 6 billion-dollar cut for the rest of the fiscal year. a 1 that is about one-half of 1%ducn reduction in spending this fiscal year and the senate demot democrats' plan it appears to me to be a 4 billion-dollartion, reduction, less than one-half of 1% reduction in spending this year. not those are fake cuts, they a