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GOP spending cuts would affect millions of people
Yahoo News ^ | January 19, 2011 | Andrew Taylor

Posted on 01/19/2011 2:39:01 PM PST by Citizen X_Area 51

SNIP...Republicans are finding it's one thing to issue a blanket promise to cut spending, an entirely different matter when you actually take the scissors to $1 of every $6 spent by agencies like the IRS, the FBI, NASA and the National Park Service. Federal layoffs would be unavoidable, the White House warns.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
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To: traditional1

“...the Dem voterbase will be heading to the suburbs to take what they believe that they have a “Right” to........”

I’ll deliver what they deserve, 9mm from a MAC-11. 900 RPM


41 posted on 01/19/2011 4:18:35 PM PST by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: old curmudgeon
Shut down the EPA

Stop unemployment checks.

Zap obummer care . . .

AND NO MORE FOOD STAMPS FOR FAT PEOPLE!!!


42 posted on 01/19/2011 4:21:42 PM PST by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: Citizen X_Area 51
GOP spending cuts would affect millions of people

Yes, but the 14 Trillion dollars, and growing, of US debt will adversely affect 300 Million people in the USA, and Billions of people around the world.

43 posted on 01/19/2011 4:35:51 PM PST by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: Citizen X_Area 51
The Republicans are about to embark on the same horrors that Margaret Thatcher went through upon taking office as the PM in 1979. The previous Labor Party government essentially wrecked Britain. They were socialist to the core, and in their term of office virtually doubled the consumer price index, doubled unemployment, doubled the tax burden and doubled public spending.

Her struggle to de-socialize started with taking on the powerful unions. With unemployment at 30% in some cities, the battle was literally bloody, to say the least.

In order to get govt spending under control, the immediate result is unemployment. Do the Republicans have the stomach to boldly do what she did? She gritted her teeth and forged on with her unpopular policies. It's one of the reasons she became known as "The Iron Lady".

You need to read about her story. It is highly pertinent to our time, and the current predicament the Repubs find themselves:

"There is no Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters" by Claire Berlinski, Basic Books, 2008. An amazing account of an amazing conservative.

44 posted on 01/19/2011 4:49:30 PM PST by CanaGuy (Go Harper! We still love you!)
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To: Panzerlied

It’s good to be prepared.


45 posted on 01/19/2011 4:53:08 PM PST by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: Hoffer Rand

Gee, I wonder how the “word got out they were giving out money”. Twitter? Facebook? Text message?

Yeah, all these “poor” people I’m sure had one if not all of these available.


46 posted on 01/19/2011 4:59:28 PM PST by Fledermaus (WAKE UP! Get rid of the LIBS in both parties. If not us, who? If not now, when?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; ...

They're called "taxpayers" and "citizens". Thanks Citizen X_Area 51.
47 posted on 01/19/2011 5:24:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: NoLibZone

Yep. They need to find $1,400billion in cuts or the ten count starts on America and the rest of the free world.


48 posted on 01/19/2011 5:26:22 PM PST by MontaniSemperLiberi (Moutaineers are Always Free)
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To: Citizen X_Area 51

Layoffs? What is needed is permanent discharges. End these wasteful government pensions too


49 posted on 01/19/2011 5:42:15 PM PST by Figment ("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
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To: Citizen X_Area 51

And 14 trillion dollars in debt will not affect people?


50 posted on 01/19/2011 5:46:15 PM PST by listenhillary (20 years in Reverend Wright's church is all I need to determine the "content of his character")
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To: Citizen X_Area 51

The federal government employs over 2.5 MILLION people and it costs hundreds of BILLIONS to employ them (and even tens of billions more that they waste). And everyone knows that there are literally hundreds of thousands of jobs that could be eliminated and no one except the “worker” would ever know it.


51 posted on 01/19/2011 6:07:04 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: MontaniSemperLiberi

Start with the 6 billion we give to the UN every year. Eliminate billions in foreign aid and voila...problem solved


52 posted on 01/19/2011 6:12:26 PM PST by katiedidit1
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To: katiedidit1

Not enough, not even close.

SS Medicare and Defense need to be cut by about 30% to make room for the rest cut by about 50% to prevent the fall of the United States.

I’m not worried that Liberals and Moderates don’t understand what needs to be done to save this country. I am worried that Conservatives don’t.

Just posted on FR:
America: Only Two More Years?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2659769/posts


53 posted on 01/19/2011 6:27:19 PM PST by MontaniSemperLiberi (Moutaineers are Always Free)
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54 posted on 01/19/2011 7:08:28 PM PST by Citizen X_Area 51 (Obama: Our first Halfrican President)
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To: Citizen X_Area 51
.....It's an entirely different matter when you actually take the scissors to $1 of every $6 spent by agencies like the IRS, the FBI, NASA and the National Park Service. Federal layoffs would be unavoidable, the White House warns.

Well that's an easy one!
IRS - cut 50%
FBI - cut 25%
NASA - cut 25%
Park Service - cut 50%
NPR - cut 100%
FDA, EPA - cut 100%
Dept of Energy - cut 100%
Dept of Education - cut 100%
State Dept - cut 50%)
Non-combat military & Pentagon - cut 50%
All foreign aid except for Israel - cut 100%

There, I just cut around $500 billion to 1 Trillion or so, in the last 10 minutes. See 0b0z0 & the demturds & RINOs? And you thought it couldn't be done.

55 posted on 01/19/2011 10:01:03 PM PST by rcrngroup
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To: traditional1

Where is that? What is it about?


56 posted on 01/20/2011 12:19:16 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: Citizen X_Area 51

Same old story - - nothing is said when the ticks vote in their Democrat politicians to confiscate money from me and other productive taxpayers at gunpoint so that it may be handed over to them in exchange for their votes, but when I and other taxpayers vote in politicians who will swat the grabbing hands away from our pockets, we are “effecting millions of people”.

Funny how the ticks and their politicians are never “effecting millions of people” when they confiscate their money.


57 posted on 01/20/2011 12:33:58 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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