I'm all for our President spending the money he feels he needs to run our government. It's a big deal - and that is the job we gave him. $6 billion sadly isn't that much compared to the additional $80 billion he is currently pushing through congress for Iraq/Iran. That's $80,000,000,000 he said he wouldn't need this time last year, so unfortunately MoJo, taking money from the "cookie jar" is exactly what he is doing. Education, agriculture, healthcare, states, you name it are losing budgetary allocations promised to them every day. A friend of mine who is a lobbyist for the state education department had federal grants cut by 22% Jan 1. without notice. They had already broken ground on 2 schools that won't be built. This shit is real.
To feel it's ok to finance continued programs through our runaway defecit is ignorant - to continue to give tax breaks and shelters in the neighborhood of $200 billion to your campanign donors when we need money the most is just criminal.
Triple spending and slash revenue 20% - we have become the Texas Rangers of world countries. Only I wouldn't count on the Bin Ladin's to give us a loan to keep us out of bankruptcy like they did with the baseball team. Sorry - longer post than I intended.
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