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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: TimF who wrote (17047)4/19/2010 4:15:00 PM
From: Alighieri   of 42652
 
A single act of congress could cancel all future spending on the programs. In the government's term of art describing spending they are "mandatory" and "not discretionary", but by the ordinary English meaning of the word the payments are discretionary, so they aren't debt.

I tried to explain that to him...

Al
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