impressed by this sacrifice

The President ordered the cabinet to cut a whopping $100 million from
the $3.5 trillion federal budget!

I'm so impressed by this sacrifice that I have decided to do the same
thing with my personal budget. I spend about $4000 a month on
groceries, medicine, bills, etc, but it's time to get out the budget
cutting ax, go line by line through my expenses, and go to work SLASHING my budget!

I'm going to cut my spending at exactly the same ratio -1/35,000 of my
total budget. After doing the math, it looks like instead of spending
$4000 a month; I'm going to have to cut that number by twelve cents!

Yes, I'm going to have to get by with $3999.88, but that's what
sacrifice is all about. I'll just have to do without some things, that
are, frankly, luxuries.