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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet
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
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I also think it is interesting that this $50 billion is but a drop in the bucket compared to the total budget, and that nearly all of those cuts are from the welfare and heath sectors. The
24% of the US budget that goes to defense spending remains largely untouched. This seems far more ideological, and far less practical. I think that Platapus' point stands.