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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (411459)	6/4/2003 7:39:50 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "You raise good points. Seems there is no solution to Politicians using the budget to make political hay. One idea would be to give the PRESIDENT LINE ITEM VETO." >>> Yep, a good idea (though probably a Constitutional amendment)... it could cut out some of the more egregious 'ear marks' in legislation that run up pork spending. But it would only work if the President is willing to directly oppose the legislator responsible. >>> And it wouldn't solve the much LARGER problem of "Borrow and Spend" that seems to affect all the federal government: >>> Once a politician leans he can BORROW all the money he ever dreamed of spending... than whatever 'restraints' there ever were on spending disappear. The WORST part of it is - once the politicians have deficit borrowed to enable their spending binge - than those interest costs on the federal debt are there whether spending discipline EVER returns, or not.