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Squandering our substance.(Correction Notice)
ITEM: Speaking of the new budget approved by Congress, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert commented in a January 2 article entitled "The Machete Budget": "Members of the House and Senate have agreed on legislation that achieves something approaching $40 billion in savings over five years primarily by hammering the sick, the poor, the elderly and college students and their families. This is the same Congress that genuflects each time the president asks for another gift-wrapped tax cut for the wealthiest among us. The textbooks tell us that the U.S. is a representative democracy, but only the upper strata are truly represented."
ITEM: "If nothing else," reported the Christian Science Monitor for December 27, 2005, "Washington's tortured, yearlong budget debate shows that cutting federal spending may be even more difficult today than it used to be.... As defense and entitlement spending has grown, most everything else that the US government does has been squeezed and squeezed again in search of savings. Most of the obvious cuts have now been made."
CORRECTION; Liberals and big spenders often attempt to push their agenda by setting false premises about what Washington should be doing. It also helps if they are ...
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