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Jeff Flake Defies GOP on Cuts (Votes 'NO' on budget cuts because they're not deep enough)
National Review ^ | 02/09/2011 | Andrew Stiles

Posted on 02/09/2011 8:11:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

This nightmare didn’t happen overnight, and it won’t be cured overnight. Keep pouring on the pressure.


21 posted on 02/09/2011 8:48:43 AM PST by pallis
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To: SeekAndFind; DManA

They should eliminate cabinet departments that violate the 10th Amendment, HUD, Education, HHS, Energy, and Transportation. They should eliminate federal welfare spending, including food stamps, unemployment benefits, and TANF. Each state government should take care of the welfare needs of its residents. All of these cuts would save about 40%. Since the federal government would need less money, Congress would pass an across-the-board 40% income tax rate cut.


22 posted on 02/09/2011 8:49:10 AM PST by PhilCollins
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To: PhilCollins

Eliminate any cabinet department whose head Obama hasn’t talked to in two years:

http://www.wrko.com/node/23439


23 posted on 02/09/2011 8:53:30 AM PST by DManA
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To: PhilCollins

The Department of Energy was created for the purpose of ensuring reliable supplies of energy we need to continue our economic growth and to improve our standard of living.

Fail and Fail.


24 posted on 02/09/2011 8:54:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: camle

Like “reaching out” to muslims?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/07/nasas_muslim_outreach_106214.html


25 posted on 02/09/2011 8:55:09 AM PST by DManA
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To: DManA

Jimmy Carter created that bureaucracy called the Department of ENERGY.

Jimmy Carter was incompetent as President.

That Eenrgy department is also incompetent and is one of Jimmy Carter’s legacies.

The department should be eliminated.

The department does little of anything of value.

Eliminating that department will save us at least $24 Billion per year in tax dollars and the elimination of that department will reduce some of the government imposed inefficiency in our economy.


26 posted on 02/09/2011 8:56:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

win, win, win.


27 posted on 02/09/2011 8:57:43 AM PST by DManA
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To: snowrip
I am utterly baffled by the inability for nearly anyone in the federal government TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY.

If you take a close look at who most of them are it becomes crystal clear. The overwhelming majority of Congresscritters are professional politicians with little or no actual experience in the private sector outside of being attorneys. Most have no business experience whatsoever and of those that do most were failures. They have no experience setting and sticking to budgets and they have no idea what it means to make a payroll. Most of them know that they simply do not have what it takes to make it in the private sector. Most are in their dream jobs and have powers and prestige that are well out of their reach in the private sector. They know when they are in these elected positions their ill conceived, poorly thought out decisions have little or no consequences for themselves personally. Simply by virtue of being elected to Congress they have insured income for life, along with the best health care in perpetuity for themselves and their spouses our tax dollars can buy. Meanwhile, lobbyists throw bales of $100 bills at them daily. It's all about the three "P's": Power, prestige and perks. I seriously doubt there are more than an handful of true Patriots in the entire body of Congress. Therein lies the problem......

28 posted on 02/09/2011 8:58:02 AM PST by Thermalseeker (The theft being perpetrated by Congress and the Fed makes Bernie Maddoff look like a pickpocket.)
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To: Thermalseeker

I am so disappointed in Ryan I could puke.


29 posted on 02/09/2011 9:04:59 AM PST by DManA
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To: DManA
I am so disappointed in Ryan I could puke.

I predicted it months ago and was flamed mercilessly, just like I predicted that Scott Brown would turn out to be a huge disappointment to Conservatives and was similarly flamed. Long past time for the political elites to go and true Patriots to step up and at least attempt to clean up the mess. It's not going to happen, though, as long sa we keep electing these "do as I say, not as I do" politicians.....

30 posted on 02/09/2011 9:10:10 AM PST by Thermalseeker (The theft being perpetrated by Congress and the Fed makes Bernie Maddoff look like a pickpocket.)
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To: camle

The reason I included NASA is b/c its almost completely ineffective. The PC drivel side lines it resources and focus. I think the mission would be better handled by private enterprise. America can do so much better than NASA is producing.


31 posted on 02/09/2011 9:19:53 AM PST by 556x45
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To: DManA

$32 Billion is pathetic. If they can’t do any better than this then it’s time for conservatives to consider an alternative to the republican party as it obviously does not intend to change from its corrupt liberal ways.


32 posted on 02/09/2011 11:12:04 AM PST by sarge83
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