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Originally Posted by djplong
Richie: Would you care to offer some of the areas in which you'd cut?
I mean, we all have our pet projects that we like - and our "hit list" of stuff we'd like to get rid of. But unless you hit the BIG guys (Defense, Social Security, Medicare) as well as the little guys (Foreign Aid, Amtrak, etc), you're just not going to get enough blood out of the stone.
Personally, I think cuts to the Big Guys are more palatable if *everyone* is getting cut. *Shared* sacrifice is something that should be able to pass more easily than a bill which would provide so much noise along the lines of "How come (fill in the blank) is getting a free pass?"
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No, I won't do that because that would transform this thread into a spitting contest about the "importance" of whatever agency or department. You know what I'm talking about and you can probably come up with 3 to 6 major government agencies that can be disbanded yourself.
Also there's untold billions of dollars wasted every years in ventures that don't help the nation as a whole. Do I have to enumerate all of those for you too? I know you can come up with maybe more that I can.
This is only about the liberals determination to make Republicans break their "no additional taxes" pledge. It's not about what's good for our country, it's about political advantage.