And speaking of snickers...

So the president all but invited snickers when he challenged his Cabinet this week to come up with $100 million in savings.

That's .0028 of 1 percent of his $3.5 trillion budget.

[From Chump change -- chicagotribune.com]

... .0028 of 1 percent is, you know, .0028 percent. As long as we're talking about wretched excess here.