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Fiscal Fraud -- or Frugality?

Alan from NJ Wrote: Jan 31, 2010 10:58 PM
'I accept responsibility'. Easy words when nobody is sent packing. Perhaps voting for fiscal conservatives, with the understanding that 'there is no free lunch' will be the justice (equity), at last. Who is working for whom, here? Let me travel, overseas, with money I saved. My servants, whom I chose, can stay home and mind the shop. I see the needy. I will decide, by sweat equity or charity, with my earnings, what persons I will help. The corrupt officials should not choose the ones that cozy up to them, using my money.
Heartless Progressives, buying votes by robbing our and their children and grandchildren. Or by mortgaging our nation to the Chinese.
'I burn the candle at both ends, it will not last the night, but... my...

For the past year, Republicans have been criticizing Barack Obama for out of control spending. So they must be pleased that they have forced him, in his State of the Union address, to concede the point by proposing a freeze on outlays of the kind Republicans generally don’t like.

Well, not exactly. After the administration floated a plan to cap non-defense, non-security discretionary spending for the next three years, the opposition party erupted in jeers.

The complaints were many: It affected only one-eighth of the budget, it came on top of big increases, and the savings would be...

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