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**LeslieMoran** · 04-15-2011, 10:52 PM

Just heard this on the radio.

The vaunted Budget Agreement, the largest spending cut in history will actually reduce spending this year by 350 million dollars, less than 1% of the 38 billion claimed to have been cut.

But by 2016, all the actual cuts, about 20 billion dollars will have been realized.

Because a lot of those cuts, was money that was never going to be spent.

That's correct it was another smoke-screen. For instance--6 billion was basically left over money from the Census in 2010--and was added in as a cut. It was simply left over money.

Even 38 billion was not even a drop of water in a 10 gallon bucket--when we are talking about a 3.7 trillion dollar budget--which is already showing a 1.7 trillion dollar deficit--(this year alone.)

You have to admire people like Michelle Bachman--who wanted a lot more in cuts and voted against this 38 billion non-sense. Unfortunately she and the other freshman republican congressmen didn't get their way.

04-15-2011, 10:52 PM	#3
LeslieMoran Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 604 Senior Member	Just heard this on the radio. The vaunted Budget Agreement, the largest spending cut in history will actually reduce spending this year by 350 million dollars, less than 1% of the 38 billion claimed to have been cut. But by 2016, all the actual cuts, about 20 billion dollars will have been realized. Because a lot of those cuts, was money that was never going to be spent. That's correct it was another smoke-screen. For instance--6 billion was basically left over money from the Census in 2010--and was added in as a cut. It was simply left over money. Even 38 billion was not even a drop of water in a 10 gallon bucket--when we are talking about a 3.7 trillion dollar budget--which is already showing a 1.7 trillion dollar deficit--(this year alone.) You have to admire people like Michelle Bachman--who wanted a lot more in cuts and voted against this 38 billion non-sense. Unfortunately she and the other freshman republican congressmen didn't get their way.
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