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Democrats Use Budget Gimmicks To Hide Spending
Investor's Business Daily ^
| 03/15/2013
| John Merline
Posted on 03/15/2013 5:25:21 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
In their first budget in four years, Senate Democrats claim to have crafted a plan that cuts federal spending a total of $975 billion over the next decade.
"This budget cuts spending responsibly," said Senate Budget Chairman Patty Murray, D-Wash., this week. "There are no sacred cows; we put everything we can on the table."
But an IBD review of the budget data shows that the Senate vastly overstates the size of its spending cuts. In fact, it could be that the Senate would, if enacted, increase federal spending by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: budget; deficit; democrats; spending
To: IBD editorial writer
In other words, Democrats lie.
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posted on
03/15/2013 5:29:45 AM PDT
by
Hoodat
(I stand with Rand.)
To: IBD editorial writer
Apparently, politicians are prime examples of the failure of the American education system. Simple mathematical equations elude them.
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posted on
03/15/2013 5:32:19 AM PDT
by
liberalh8ter
(If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
To: liberalh8ter
As another poster put it earlier this week, “If Patty Murry's brain were a light bulb, it would not light the inside of a microwave oven.”
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Dang, I missed that. It's a spot-on assessment. They're either evil or stupid or perhaps, it's a combination of both.
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posted on
03/15/2013 5:42:07 AM PDT
by
liberalh8ter
(If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
To: IBD editorial writer
It is a complete lie. What the 'rats are doing is simple. Basically, they'd like to spend say several trillion dollars, running up something like a trillion dollar deficit. Instead, they "only" plan on spending such that they run up a 900 billion dollar deficit - and then they claim credit for 100 billion in "deficit reduction."
No, you lying POS's - increasing the debt is not in any way, shape, or form "deficit reduction." You are still increasing the debt. By their logic I'm saving millions every day - every day that I don't go out and buy that place on the beach...
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posted on
03/15/2013 5:51:06 AM PDT
by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: liberalh8ter
They are selfish and manipulative control freaks.
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posted on
03/15/2013 5:52:17 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: yldstrk
Senator Patti Murray is too stupid to lie well, but she can take orders.
Those of us who cannot see the Space Needle from where we live, get a big, sad laugh when we see that this bitter, ignorant partisan(Sen. Murray) has been foisted on the nation as Chairbeing of the Budget committee.
TWB
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:24:54 AM PDT
by
TWhiteBear
(Sarah Palin...The Flame of the North)
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