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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (266774)1/13/2006 6:56:50 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1576155
 

The Machete Budget

Probably not a very good title, at least if the article is supposed to accurately reflect reality. "The pork budget", or "The overstuffed budget" would probably be better. Maybe "bloated budget".

Consider the budget that will soon be sent to the president for his signature. 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.

$40 billion less than the planned increases. Not a $40bil reduction. With a budget at 2 and a half trillion and growing that is hardly a "machete budget", it probably doesn't qualify as "a scalpel budget".
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