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To: TimF who wrote (5403)	3/8/2006 3:30:22 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Perhaps making each line item stand on its own merit rather then filling transportation bills with a gazillion dollars worth of BS that have nothing to do with transportation.

To: TimF who wrote (5403)	3/8/2006 4:35:56 PM
From: haqihana	Respond to of 71588

Tim, As Oral said, until we have a line veto to clean up the pork barrel things that Congressmen, and Senators, stuff bills with, they will continue to pass money around to try and buy, the votes in their districts. I am definitely for term limits. Just think about it. With term limits we would have been rid of Teddy Kennedy years ago.

To: TimF who wrote (5403)	3/10/2006 12:53:53 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 71588

"IMO getting the spending down is more important than it is balancing the budget."* Agreed that spending is too high. Increasing taxes to close the budget would work too. It would destroy the economy and induce a new wave of misery before people finally realized that spending must decline with tax declines. IMHO the trade deficit is a major concern as well. We cannot keep exporting dollars; eventually every debtor has to pay their banker, or has to take the punishment for defaulting. * Words in italics were added.