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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (16341)	1/10/2007 5:55:49 PM
From: Jim S	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

"...They nearly all have that same 'opportunity' for fiscal prudence." Do you really think so? I'm not so sure. Something like 90% of the budget is "locked in" for various programs with automatic COLA increases. The remaining 10% (or whatever it is) is about all the discretion any Congress has control of, and they all have special projects and people to spend the money on. A prez who starts vetoing spending bills will quickly find himself a major target of congress critters as well as the MSM. If the prez actually holds to a promise to cut spending, all those little "special projects" will end up as riders to things the prez DOES want enacted. The whole process is so institutionally corrupt that I sincerely question if any prez can do anything about it.

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (16341)	1/10/2007 10:32:58 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

The current President and his predecessor both asked for the power to restrain spending to be restored to the office of the President. Congress cooperated during the Clinton Administration, but the SCOTUS struck it down. The Republican controlled Congress has done nothing to restrain spending during the Administration of President Bush 43. "(IMO, the next Prez may not have much of an 'opportunity' to be fiscally wasteful! Likely that option will be taken away from him.)"