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Re: Obama orders budget cut (1/35,000th)
« Reply #15 on: April 28, 2009, 09:55:35 am »
Cutting Pork (A republican suggestion) and cutting the budget (the President's suggestion) are both very very small savings in spending relative to the size of the Federal Budget, but Republicans only criticize one of the two approaches.

That's my point. Cutting both are good. I'm just pointing out hypocrisy.

I don't think Republicans are criticizing the general idea of budget cuts. lol.

They downplay the efforts based on the argument that it's small compared to the size of the overall Budget, yet they cry endlessly about Pork barrel spending which..also is small in size compared to the overall Budget.


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Re: Obama orders budget cut (1/35,000th)
« Reply #16 on: April 28, 2009, 04:24:23 pm »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWt8hTayupE

Visual representation of the budget cuts.

holy crap.  $100m has never meant so little...

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Re: Obama orders budget cut (1/35,000th)
« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2009, 04:43:00 pm »
Cutting Pork (A republican suggestion) and cutting the budget (the President's suggestion) are both very very small savings in spending relative to the size of the Federal Budget, but Republicans only criticize one of the two approaches.

That's my point. Cutting both are good. I'm just pointing out hypocrisy.

I don't think Republicans are criticizing the general idea of budget cuts. lol.

They downplay the efforts based on the argument that it's small compared to the size of the overall Budget, yet they cry endlessly about Pork barrel spending which..also is small in size compared to the overall Budget.


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Quoting ahead of Craz3d's bs.
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Re: Obama orders budget cut (1/35,000th)
« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2009, 05:06:05 pm »

They downplay the efforts based on the argument that it's small compared to the size of the overall Budget, yet they cry endlessly about Pork barrel spending which..also is small in size compared to the overall Budget.


Pork can be lots of WASTEFUL (key term) spending though

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Re: Obama orders budget cut (1/35,000th)
« Reply #19 on: April 28, 2009, 05:08:43 pm »

They downplay the efforts based on the argument that it's small compared to the size of the overall Budget, yet they cry endlessly about Pork barrel spending which..also is small in size compared to the overall Budget.


Pork can be lots of WASTEFUL (key term) spending though

Uh no. It's still a miniscule part relative to the whole budget, which is the core of this ridiculous argument.
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Re: Obama orders budget cut (1/35,000th)
« Reply #20 on: April 28, 2009, 05:52:24 pm »
Agreed.  We could cut a lot more in addition to the pork barrel.  Like welfare.

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Re: Obama orders budget cut (1/35,000th)
« Reply #21 on: April 28, 2009, 06:28:12 pm »
Agreed.  We could cut a lot more in addition to the pork barrel.  Like welfare.

Welfare is fine, considering the return we get in GDP. Keynes at his finest.
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