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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (62853)	3/1/2013 10:37:48 PM
From: greatplains_guy	of 71588

Yes. The threat of Obamagedon is probably responsible for Walmart's horrible February sales in the minds of low information voters. It is horrible to think that the rate of spending growth might decline. Obama was hoping to get it on a permanent logarithmic scale, or perhaps a hyperbolic curve. Take the Department of Transportation. Its budget last year was $75 billion; this year it is $89 billion. If Mr. LaHood believes he should start accumulating his $600 million in sequester savings by furloughing air-traffic controllers, the House Transportation Committee can ask why he didn't begin by cutting expenditures like Alaska sightseeing trains ($72 million), old-fashioned trolleys in Missouri ($22 million plus) and sidewalks to nowhere in Florida ($1.1 million)? These were all Department of Transportation outlays identified by Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn last October. Apparently cutting genuine waste and abuse would not conjure up fear. Instead of cutting wasteful abuse of Air Force One privileges they are cutting air force flyovers popular at sporting events.

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