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Democrats controlling the House approved a plan Thursday to cut $7 billion from President Barack Obama's budget request for foreign aid and the operating budgets for Cabinet agencies.
"It demands that we live within our means ... and works to eliminate waste and inefficiency in our spending," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "And it sets us on-course to balanced budgets in the future."
I applaud budget cuts. They're drastically needed. What I don't applaud is Democrats making budget cuts in order to appear fiscially-responsible in an election year. The funny part is that Democrats don't even realize that its too late to salvage their reputation of spending this country into damnation. The writing is on the wall for November. Too little, too late Nancy. Sorry for your luck.
And in the same day passed an $80 billion war funding bill....that includes more than funding the war..subsidies to teachers, summer youth programs, black farmer discrimination, etc, etc, etc..oh and the veterans got their money too.
House-OK'd war funding bill faces Senate trouble - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100702/ap_on_bi_ge/us_congress_war_funding - broken link)
So they saved $7 billion but spent $80 billion and that is good ??
And in the same day passed an $80 billion war funding bill....that includes more than funding the war..subsidies to teachers, summer youth programs, black farmer discrimination, etc, etc, etc..oh and the veterans got their money too.
House-OK'd war funding bill faces Senate trouble - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100702/ap_on_bi_ge/us_congress_war_funding - broken link)
So they saved $7 billion but spent $80 billion and that is good ??
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