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Dramatic Action Needed to Avoid Sequester

Vader!*#% Wrote: Feb 13, 2013 11:01 PM

Oh please, all Federal departments will see an incease in spending every year under sequestration. The incease will just be a little less than projected. Only a Democrat would call this a cut. Bring it on. Everyone talks about how the Republicans will resist any reduction in the rate of spending for Defense. I can't wait to see how the progressives/liberals/marxists will squirm over the decreased rate of spending for their holy social progams. The amount involved needs to be four times the current amount to really reduce spending. This is all smoke and mirrors.

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Dramatic Action Needed to Avoid Sequester

WASHINGTON -- The definition of a failed, spend-thrift, debt-producing, fiscal policy is making the same proposals over and over again and expecting a different result.

In some circles, it's also the definition of crazy.

This is what President Obama has been doing over the past four years, with little to show for it, and what he intends to do over the next four years of his second term.

Obama's 2009 "shovel-ready" job stimulus plan ended up spending about $1 trillion in public funds on research, roads, bridges, education, dubious clean energy projects and a lengthy list of other federal, state and local programs around...

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