Republicans propose to rein in spending

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

I'm not sure this qualifies as LBN. The article's recent enough but it sounds like the same old recycled election year promise.

Tuesday March 2, 8:13 pm ET
By Anna Willard


WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Republicans, under election-year pressure to keep spending under control, are expected to propose budgets that will trim President George W. Bush's defense and tax cut plans and reduce the deficit faster than the White House suggested.


The Senate budget committee will discuss its 2005 budget blue print on Wednesday and the House of Representatives committee will work on its budget plans next week. Both are expected to consider five-year budgets.

To show they are tackling the deficit problem, the committees are expected to try to reduce the spending controlled by Congress to below the $823 billion congressional analysts estimate was in Bush's proposal.

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http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/040302/congress_budget_1.html

[RobertSeattle]

1. Reminds me of that line in "Cold Mountain"

"They make the weather and then they complain about the rain"

(Or something close to that)

[KissMyAsscroft]

2. Yeah, by cutting Social Security

and screwing over the poor for another round of taxes cuts..

No Dice, asshole.

[kiahzero]

3. Is this how they're going to do it?

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?i=2

Bush to Cut Deficit from Federal Budget

WASHINGTON, DC—President Bush proposed a $2.4 trillion election-year budget Monday that would boost defense spending, redistribute funds among government programs, and cross out the $477 billion deficit entirely.

"Nobody likes making cuts, but the nation's current rate of spending and the decreased tax revenues we've seen since implementing my tax cuts have created a deficit that we can't afford to carry," Bush said in a nationally televised address. "Someone had to have the vision, leadership, and courage to go in and erase that line altogether, no matter how unpopular and impossible that may be."

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the $477 billion deficit is the country's largest ever, easily topping the previous record of $290 billion in 1992. If the budget is approved, however, the deficit will roll down to $0.0 billion.

In the past, critics have accused the Bush Administration of responding to a mounting deficit and the ongoing recession with unsound fiscal policies like cutting taxes for the wealthy. Bush supporters say the deficit cut proves the wisdom of the president's economic plan.

[Thucydides]

4. Well how could they possibly rein in spending, what with having

to focus on Bill Clintons penis for the last three years. Damn Bill that must be some huge Shloong. Its all Clintons fault ya know!

[TroglodyteScholar]

5. These guys...

...could make cuts all the way down to skimping on office supplies and they'd hardly make a dent.