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Old 10-28-2011, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Figmo Bohica View Post
Oh, but foreign aid is only 1/100 of a percent of the whole budget. Then lets cut out WIC, but that is only 1/100 of a percent of the whole budget. If we cut enough of the 1/100th of the budget pretty soon we will have a whole percent, then 2 percent and right on up the scale. Stopping spending has to start someplace and if all our criminal congressmen and ladies keep saying its only x per cent of the whole budget there will never be any savings by cutting spending.
Instead of starting with the 0.01%, why don't we start with the elephants? Cutting, say, 10% of defense would go a lot further than eliminating (not just cutting) innumerable programs.