Posted on 04/13/2011 5:50:08 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
Originally the deal between The White House and Congressional Republicans was touted for delivering $38 billion in cost savings.
Then, yesterday's analysis showed that the savings were probably just half that, since a lot of the savings came from not spending money that was never going to be spent.
Turns out, the spending cuts are even more minimal than that.
According to the CBO, via National Journal, the total savings come to a whopping... $352 million. With an M.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Cue Claude Rains...
No why Boehner wouldn’t lie on the TV and radio to Americans and the TEA party. (snicker, snicker)
Sooner or later people are going to realize that the republican leadership are ALL, as in each and every one of them, socialists just ike their democrat friends.
GOP screwed again. Tea Party take notice.
But this time they promised......
Pity...
They promised so sincerely.
War on RINO’s......
I’m Shocked SHOCKED to find out that less than a dozen people are on this thread talking about the subject. SHOCKED even more that not one person is on here telling us to TRUST THESE GUYS, THEY REALLY WILL CUT, BUT IT IS JUST SO HARD RIGHT NOW. Better yet, the bonehead move they made before the new Congress was sworn in, extending the tax cuts of GW. They could have waited and made a play for permanence, but NO, they cut a poor deal that will have to be fought out again in September. GOOD JOB GUYS, using the lingo of those saying the Pubes got all they could, they “fought for the high ground, only to give it up a few months later, to fight back to the top again”. WAY TO SPEND THAT PRECIOUS POLITICAL CAPITAL!!!!!
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