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It just means you increase the rhetoric and talk it to death...but you don't actually cut anything.
Especially when you realize that it sounds good for elections, but no one actually expects you to deliver on it. In fact, they hope you won't, unless you're cutting SOMEONE ELSE'S big government. Don't touch their's though.
The federal government has doubled in size of ther last decade or so, have you really seen doubling of services provided?
If wages are stagnant (or declining0 and healthcare costs are skyrocketing, should government cut Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements, stop accepting new enrollments or what?
there are a number of things that can be cut to reduce teh size of government. many departments can be consolidated as their missions are similar to identical. other departments can be eliminated altogether. still others can be reduced in size. and budgets dont have to be cut very much, 5% across the board should do nicely.
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there are a number of things that can be cut to reduce teh size of government. many departments can be consolidated as their missions are similar to identical. other departments can be eliminated altogether. still others can be reduced in size. and budgets dont have to be cut very much, 5% across the board should do nicely.
You didnt answer his question.
He is asking why and what to cut, not how to cut it.
You shouldnt consolidate departments just because they are similar, what you do is create multitudes of work loads for less people and create a more inefficient government.
inefficient government is not good for anyone.
further more, 5% is an arbitrary number, do some research and post a number that has meaning(and explain what that meaning is).
If we just went back to 2007 levels of spending in time it would start reductions in deficits. Its like that austerity in Europe ;its was not cuts in but was just reduction in increases. Basically without requirement for balanced budget as even has Germany are going for; its always going to be spending on credit card. Many states have balanced budgets requirements. Only way to stop spending on credit by lawmakers that is proven. But then it would mean they have to make tough choice on spending which they hate.
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