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To: tejek who wrote (177462)	11/4/2003 10:09:55 AM
From: brian1501	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574679

That's not true Look, you guys are using "discretionary spending" as a way of taking certain expenditures off the table. It's a crutch in your argument. "We must spend that money...it's the law!" It's a law that can be as easily removed by the same body that created it. I fully realize that discretionary spending refers to things that are "nice to have" in a budget. For us, your mortgage isn't discretionary, but going to the movies is. Yet you can choose to not pay your mortgage if you wish. Taxes are not discretionary (we go to jail if we don't pay them). There is no parallel at the governmental level. My objection is that you all seem to think if spending isn't discretionary, it's somehow mandated by God to happen. That is not the case, so on some level, all spending by the government is discretionary in spirit, if not by term. Brian