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ForFuxakes Donating Member (221 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 12:56 PM
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Bush want to cut "Pet Projects"...ROFLMAO
Edited on Wed Jan-03-07 12:58 PM by ForFuxakes
I wonder if he means spending say on things like...oh I don't know....IRAQ?

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Wednesday he’ll submit a five-year budget proposal that will balance the federal budget by 2012 and called on Congress to sharply cut back on costly pet projects hidden in spending bills.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16453012/
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 12:57 PM
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1. Yep, let's start by cutting several of his 'pet projects'...Iraq, faith-based
initiatives, drug program that is making big Pharm rich, etc.
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2Design Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 12:59 PM
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2. cutting funding for anything repuliks want and we will have plenty
for paying off the debt and getting National health care
the money he wasted would have paid many times over for national health care
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 12:59 PM
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3. So he waited til it was the 110th before calling on Congress?
I guess the GOPers were such angels during the last 6 years. :sarcasm:
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 01:02 PM
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4. I'm wondering if he's using creative mathematics
to come up with this budget balancing in 5 years trick. I read somewhere that the cost of Iraq isn't even shown in the budget--that would be like a dieter "not counting" the 12 hot fudge sundaes they eat every day.....
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-03-07 01:35 PM
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5. It amazes me the level of despise I have for this man
can get any bigger.

From the AP on his "call": http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUSH?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME

Bush: Congress Must Limit Pork Spending
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush said Wednesday he'll submit a proposal to balance the budget in five years and exhorted Congress to "end the dead of night process" of quietly tucking expensive pet projects into spending bills.

(That dead of the night process was trademark Republics leading the way. Democrats were more often that not prevented from participating in the process and replaced by lobbyists.)
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