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Carnage251 Donating Member (302 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-06-10 08:27 PM
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Cutting the Deficit for Dummies
 
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Make pork barrel spending and ear marks illegal - 20 billion

-End all no bid contracts - 40 billion

- Eliminate medicare part D - 40 billion

- Close offshore tax havens - 100 billion

- End the drug war - 14 billion

- Nasa - 8 billion

- Eliminate subsidies for oil gas and coal companies - 40 billion

- Bank tax (repays taxpayers for wallst. bailout) - 10 billion

- Retroactive 100% tax on wall st. bonuses - 145 billion

- Reform healthcare system COPYING the best in the world - 900 billion

-Cut military budget - 507 billion
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Larry Ogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-06-10 09:21 PM
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1. So the guy balanced the budget and broke Corporate America in 8 minutes
He must be a commie pinko socialist boogeyman.

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LostinRed Donating Member (292 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-06-10 11:36 PM
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2. Most I agree with but not cutting funding for NASA n/t
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moonbatmax Donating Member (290 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 10:21 AM
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3. Agreed!
And did you notice, it's the smallest item on the list?
In fact, it works out to less than half a percent of the total!
I wonder how many other programs come to that much?
Maybe we could eliminate all of them, too?
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