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Many of them aren't. Even PP could probably go 100% private funding in the near future. The difference is defunding through planning intead of cutting the jugular and seeing if it bleeds out or survives.
Really, you think PP will ever voluntarily give up it's fed funding? BTW, there's like 1.6 billion dollars in tax dollars that PP cannot account for. Where's the responsibility on PP's part to use fed funds wisely?
George Washington was right about political parties.
The democrats stance is absolutely insane... we need to cut and we need to cut trillions over the next 10 years. This is simply not debatable, we will crash as a country if it does not happen; therefore regardless of any other politics the democrats are completely at fault for not taking a strong stance on cutting the spending.
I'm still waiting on fixing the tax loopholes everyone knows is there. Until we take that step, we will be nowhere near fixing the budget.
The key part is highlighted. Yes, we need to do something about our structural budget deficit. We need to have solutions for long-term issues like how to make social security solvent, how to control Medicare/Medicaid costs, how to reform and simplify our tax code, and how much defense spending we will need to cut. But that debate does not belong in the 2011 federal budget.
The President kicked butt.
All those kids from Colorado (critical swing state) will be able to visit the Washington monument. God bless!
Who won the budget deal?
So what do you think?
Exactly. It is not even gonna make a dent and it looked like little kids on a playground that have not learned how to play well w/each other.
Who won the budget deal?
So what do you think?
At the end of the day, they managed to do what should have been done by the failed 2010 dem led congress. Who won...well...no one. When you are talking about budget cuts of 30-60 billion with a deficit of over a trillion, with total annual spending approaching 4 trillion, and a national debt of 14.5 trillion...how can anyone call it a win when they managed to cut .017% of the deficit? And how can any citizens be happy and proud of that? Good lord...to see people puffing their chest and swelling with partisan pride over what did or didnt get funded...either way...its kinda pathetic. The taxpayers are still screwed in the deal. If this is the future of budget reform...quibbling over a few billion while racking up trillions in additional debt, we can expect to see fiscal accountability in about 9 years...when the Chinese take us to court to pay beck the debt we owe them.
Win...OK. Pop a cork.
… Clearly the people who voted in november have had an impact on the budget dialog.
While I honestly believe that the people voting in November 2010 were seriously mislead by Republicans across the country, I think it is right and good that the election has had significant consequences, in this case ill-advised and arbitrary discretionary spending cuts. The American democratic process works.
I am really surprised by this reaction. It is very difficult to change direction of anything that has been going only in one direction for 40 years. A cut of any size is a material change in the way government now has to look at spending and the budget. Also remember that this is abudget that is almost halfway done, it goes only until October.
Clearly the people who voted in november have had an impact on the budget dialog.
Who won the budget deal?
So what do you think?
It is noted that neither VanceMack or Aunt Spiker have yet to register their opinion in the poll. Perhaps, this whole ‘voting’ thing is beyond them.
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