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To: Dale Baker who wrote (9612)	1/24/2006 11:18:39 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541900

Good article. It seems there is finally some successful effort to restrain "nonsecurity discretionary spending". I'd like to see more, esp. after the rapid rise during Bush's 1st couple of years in office, but as the article points out the real problem is entitlement spending. This might have given Bush some cover if it wasn't for the fact the Bush isn't just following along with the automatic spending increases but rather has started a major new entitlement program. Bush might try to say "this spending is mandated by law", but that rings hollow when he changed the law to mandate more spending. True he did try social security reform, but he had no success, and he hasn't even proposed any effort to restrain medical entitlements (quite the opposite he has expanded them). Tim