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Originally Posted by Platapus
From an economics standpoint, cutting the EPA is like being on the Titanic after she struck an iceberg and deciding to fix a leaky faucet. 
Focus needs to be on the Military Industrial Complex, Social Security Programs, and Medicare.
Anything else is small spuds. |
while there is some truth to that... i think that there is also the whole "death by a million paper cuts" concept here too.
cutting a lot of things from the budget adds up too
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i think it shows something interesting about our two parties when one wants to cut over $50B from the budget and the other about $5B