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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (16341)	1/10/2007 5:55:49 PM
From: Jim S	Read Replies (2) of 71588

"...They nearly all have that same 'opportunity' for fiscal prudence." Do you really think so? I'm not so sure. Something like 90% of the budget is "locked in" for various programs with automatic COLA increases. The remaining 10% (or whatever it is) is about all the discretion any Congress has control of, and they all have special projects and people to spend the money on. A prez who starts vetoing spending bills will quickly find himself a major target of congress critters as well as the MSM. If the prez actually holds to a promise to cut spending, all those little "special projects" will end up as riders to things the prez DOES want enacted. The whole process is so institutionally corrupt that I sincerely question if any prez can do anything about it.

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