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President Obama, thrifty as always, has ordered his staff to go through the federal budget "line by line" and find $100 million worth of wasteful spending that can be cut.(THE WEEK)(Barack Obama)(Brief article)

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President Obama, thrifty as always, has ordered his staff to go through the federal budget "line by line" and find $100 million worth of wasteful spending that can be cut. For the large group of Americans who can't tell a million from a billion from a kajillion, that may sound like a lot, but in comparison with the projected 2009 deficit of $1.85 trillion, it's tiny. How tiny? Imagine taking Obama's "race speech" from last year's primaries, his Berlin address to the people of the Earth, his acceptance speech at the Democratic ...

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