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To: Mudboy Slim
Just scrolled over to check this out.

It sounds good, but what if Congress has already set excessive spending limits?
1,124 posted on 01/31/2004 3:04:26 PM PST by k2blader (Folks who deny the President's proposal is an amnesty are being intellectually dishonest.)
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To: k2blader
"It sounds good, but what if Congress has already set excessive spending limits?"

It's up to WeThePeople to make sure that Congress doesn't formalize outta-control spending with legislation. I've never been one to shrink from debating Lib'rals on this Forum and one thing I've discovered from such endeavors is that the Left is scair't as hell of instituting over-arching spending limits. What I mean is that whenever I discussed linking Federal spending to a % of Gross Domestic Product, the Lefties would insist I name particular programs that would be reduced and by how much. I'd argue that "NO, priorities would have to be established AFTER we agreed that overall spending needed to be reduced", and that just killed the Lefties' big-spending stance!!

If we can set limits and have automatic accross-the-board reductions in place if Congress fails to institute priorities, I think America will benefit greatly as long as we insist that Congress adheres to the limits.

FReegards...MUD

1,134 posted on 01/31/2004 3:24:03 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!)
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