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Originally Posted by ASU2003
Eric Cantor || Republican Whip || YouCut
The only reason I say it's a start is that there is a lot of other earmarks and tax cuts that I'm sure the American public wouldn't go for. They could expand this to a lot of different government angencies as well.
Yet, there is a reason that having the government spend some money is a good thing, and if this becomes a fiscal witch-hunt, it might not work out too well.
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I am sorry, but this is all bullshit. Not the cutting spending part, but the desperate attempt to find a escapegoat for the country's fiscal problems. Get a small program, spin it so it is seen in the worst possible light, sell it as being tough on spending. Over the next five years the federal government will spend nearly 20 trillion dollars. The biggest cut there isn't an actual budget item, but the fact that federal workers can use some of their time in union related activities, something that wouldn't change the budget, as it most federal workers are salaried, and not paid by the hour. Everything else there put together is about 0.03% of the budget.
So in other words, everything in there is meaningless. It is a political strategy to sound tough without having to do anything. To really cut spending would require to cut medicare, social security and the military, but guess what, that is unpopular.