budget cuts Washington style

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.............."In the real world, in fact, many of their “cuts” cut nothing at all. The Transportation Department got credit for “cutting” a $280 million tunnel that had been canceled six months earlier. It also “cut” a $375,000 road project that had been created by a legislative typo, on a road that did not exist.

At the Census Bureau, officials got credit for a whopping $6 billion cut, simply for obeying the calendar. They promised not to hold the expensive 2010 census again in 2011."......................

Budget cuts are already effecting the nation: http://www.thetrumpet.com/article/10359.19.0.0/world/military/american-carrier-will-not-deploy-to-persian-gulf

Don't care? Somehow it's the GOP's fault? Enjoy the bed you set my Liberal friends, you get to sleep in it with the rest of us. When the United States can no longer project power overseas the fight will come to us on our own shores. Remember, "we" voted for this.

That is the nature of budget cuts....something, or someone, is going to suffer.....surely we all knew that. All we have heard from the GOP is cut, cut, cut.....so OK, we're cutting.......now we hear...."well don't cut the military", Though I guess you have a point. Lets make all the cuts here at home, on the poor, the seniors, the unemployed, the sick, small businesses and start ups.....then we will no longer project the image overseas that this country is the land of the free, or a super power, or a desirable place to live. Problem solved, illegal immigration will decline as our nation declines......the terrorists won't need to attack us, we will attack ourselves from within. Neat.

I, myself, would prefer the federal government to cut funding for the responsibilities it has assigned to itself rather than to have it cut funding for responsibilities assigned to it by the Constitution, but that's just me I guess. The loss of individual welfare funding from the federal government wouldn't, by necessity, mean that the poor, the elderly, the sick and the other people you mentioned would suffer. There is always the level of government which should properly be tending to these needs that could be relied upon to provide for those needs. Are not the poor, the elderly, and the sick who are citizens, or residents, of Colorado more properly primarily the responsibility of the citizens of Colorado than they are the citizens of the other States? Don't we, as Coloradoans, have a greater responsibility to other Coloradoans than we do to New Yorkers, Californians or Floridians?

How about just some across the board budget freezes? Then everyone's ox is gored. Everyone makes a sacrifice. Instead of spending all those money on lobbyists seeking a bigger piece of the pie, or a bigger tax break, they could spend that money elsewhere.

archer wrote: That is the nature of budget cuts....something, or someone, is going to suffer.....surely we all knew that. All we have heard from the GOP is cut, cut, cut.....so OK, we're cutting.......now we hear...."well don't cut the military", Though I guess you have a point. Lets make all the cuts here at home, on the poor, the seniors, the unemployed, the sick, small businesses and start ups.....then we will no longer project the image overseas that this country is the land of the free, or a super power, or a desirable place to live. Problem solved, illegal immigration will decline as our nation declines......the terrorists won't need to attack us, we will attack ourselves from within. Neat.

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Don't cut the military? Don't mistake the right wing of the political class as conservative thinking.

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