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spending cuts

Cutting Spare Change from the Federal Budget

April 20, 2009

In what is nothing more than a PR stunt, Obama is meeting with his cabinet for the first time today to ask them to cut, collectively, $100 million from the Federal Budget. That’s right, $100 million. Not $1 billion, not $10 billion, not $100 billion, not $1 trillion. With the spending that has gone on [...]

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McGovern in a Reagan Mask

September 22, 2008

We recently had a discussion about Barack Obama’s “tax cut” plan, the one that redistributes income to those who don’t pay taxes. Informed people aren’t buying it, but it was a smart move for someone trying to win an election in a conservative country. Today, Obama paid lip service to another prong of fiscal conservatism, [...]

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It’s a start…

November 3, 2005

Well, for the first time since 1997, Republicans in the Senate voted for a “Spending Cut“. It is worth pointing out, as has been by many others more learned and famous than myself, that all this really means is that programs won’t grow as much this year as they were originally supposed to under the [...]

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