[Lamplighter]

Now your turn. Name spending cuts (not FUTURE spending cuts
that probably will never materialize, but ACTUAL NOW spending cuts),
that Obama and the Democrats have supported.

OK simple Google searches, starting with 2009:

The $17 billion would be saved by ending or reducing 121 federal programs.

Mr. Obama listed some of them: a long-range radio navigation system that costs $35 million
but has been rendered obsolete by global positioning systems;
a literacy program that spends half its financing on overhead,
and will be absorbed by other Education Department efforts;
and the position of education attaché to UNESCO,
based in the United States Embassy in Paris.

“None of this will be easy,” he said.

That is certainly true for about half of the savings that administration officials say
will come from military programs. The savings proposals, outlined last month
by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates as part of a comprehensive reordering
of military spending priorities, drew howls of protest from supporters in Congress and the arms industry.

Among Mr. Gates’s targets are missile defense programs,
the Army’s costly Future Combat Systems, Navy shipbuilding,
the advanced F-22 fighter jet
and a state-of-the-art helicopter fleet for the president.

In 2010:

President Obama notched substantial successes in spending cuts last year,
winning 60 percent of his proposed cuts and managing to get Congress
to ax several programs that had bedeviled President George W. Bush for years.

Mr. Obama made progress on several other programs that had eluded Mr. Bush’s ax, including a student mentoring program in the Education Department, which went from $47 million in 2009 to zero, and Labor Department work incentive grants, which went from $17 million to zero.

The administration says Congress accepted at least $6.9 billion of the $11.3 billion
in discretionary spending cuts Mr. Obama proposed for the current fiscal year.
An analysis by The Washington Times found that Mr. Obama was victorious
in getting Congress to slash 24 programs and achieved some level of success in reducing nine other programs.

Among the president’s victories are canceling the multibillion-dollar F-22 Raptor program,
ending the LORAN-C radio-based ship navigation system and culling a series
of low-dollar education grants. In each of those cases, Mr. Obama succeeded
in eliminating programs that Mr. Bush repeatedly failed to end.

Mr. Obama made progress on several other programs that had eluded Mr. Bush’s ax,
including a student mentoring program in the Education Department,
which went from $47 million in 2009 to zero, and Labor Department
work incentive grants, which went from $17 million to zero.

Mr. Obama asked Congress to slash $26 million in funding for the Delta Health Initiative,
arguing that the government ends up paying for equipment or facilities
that should be financed by customers of private health clinics.

Instead, Sen. Thad Cochran, Mississippi Republican and ranking member
of the Appropriations Committee, inserted an earmark that keeps the money flowing
and raises the level an additional $9 million. Mr. Cochran said in his budget request
that the money will help taxpayers by improving health services in
one of the nation’s most impoverished regions.

Shall I continue ???