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To: greenspirit who wrote (338318)	1/6/2003 9:59:22 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 769667

show me a place where there is gov't spending and I would makes cuts there. When is business is faced with reduced revenues and profits, do you expect that company to continue with business as usual or do you expect them to cut costs? First to go are luxury programs like the NEA. I would also start reducing the wages of highly paid gov't employees. I'd start with congresscritters first and I would certainly not give them a raise. Your question should be "where wouldn't you cut spending?", because I would expect there to be widespread cuts. Some programs would disappear altogether, others would just have fat trimmed.

To: greenspirit who wrote (338318)	1/6/2003 10:24:55 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 769667

Oh man, would that be fun. cut from government spending if you had the opportunity?

To: greenspirit who wrote (338318)	1/6/2003 12:24:21 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Dear Michael: I will tell you what I would do, and this is based upon serving 3 years on a Minnie Grace Commission (commission set up to reduce, in our case, county govt. expenditures). I would cancell EVERY program EXCEPT SS & Medicare. Then I would rebuild from the ground up, meaning every program to be reinstated would have to demonstrate its value and demonstrate its budget. Generally speaking programs NEVER GET CANCELLED and get budetary increases comparable to cost of living often even more. We got programs going back to the NEW DEAL. Are they valuable any longer, who knows, no one has ever had to demonstate they are. Feifdoms are created and no one wants to surrender their TURF. JDN