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**Qynvtlur** · 01-03-2012, 06:20 PM

'"The Washington Post reports that despite the popular Democratic myth that the federal budget is being squeezed left and right by heartless Republicans, the debt is $1 trillion higher than when tea party GOP House members came to town a year ago. It will grow by an additional $1 trillion by the end of 2012, according to projections.

"We've saved the American taxpayer about 17 hours of spending. That's it," Rep. Reid Ribble, a freshman GOP House member from Wisconsin, told the Post. "When you just really stop and think about it, we've made very little progress."'

01-03-2012, 06:20 PM	#1
Qynvtlur Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 407 Senior Member	Debt ceiling: Still going up and up and up '"The Washington Post reports that despite the popular Democratic myth that the federal budget is being squeezed left and right by heartless Republicans, the debt is $1 trillion higher than when tea party GOP House members came to town a year ago. It will grow by an additional $1 trillion by the end of 2012, according to projections. "We've saved the American taxpayer about 17 hours of spending. That's it," Rep. Reid Ribble, a freshman GOP House member from Wisconsin, told the Post. "When you just really stop and think about it, we've made very little progress."'
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