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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by JEQuidam
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I have read your Q8, and find that the flaw is you aren't citing any more than regurgitating your opinion via a spam link. Please do us the courtesy and quote your information here.
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As governance improves — as the number of Representatives increases — the House will be inclined to reduce the size of the government. To put this in perspective, for the sake of argument, suppose that it would cost an additional two billion dollars annually to increase the number of Representatives to 6,000 (this includes both compensation and supporting infrastructure). Though a sizable sum, it must be viewed against total federal expenditures of approximately 2.7 trillion dollars. Thirty-thousand.org believes that this larger Representative body would more than offset their total costs through judicious stewardship: to recoup this additional expense they need only reduce federal expenditures by 1/10 of 1% (i.e., one-tenth of one percent). Because examples of government extravagance and waste are legion, it is quite feasible to beneficially achieve such a reduction in federal expenditures. With respect to extravagance alone, it is estimated that the 2007 budget contains $2.4 billion of blatant pork-barrel spending [Source: Citizens Against Government Waste].
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I don't disagree that there are wasteful programs and pork. But YOU believe, kindly keep in mind that YOU are Thirty-thousand.org. I don't see any memberships or people who are agreeing or writing for you, so it's YOU who believe. It's you who makes the assumptions you are professing.
And what if they AREN'T judiciously stewarding the monies? You currently have 435 who currenlty aren't what makes several hundred more, that much more responsible?
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