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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (24853)	1/17/2008 3:19:08 PM
From: Geoff Altman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Now now Peter, that's not fair. I read just about everything you post here.... I'm just too ignorant to respond to some of them.....<g>

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (24853)	1/17/2008 4:02:15 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Its not just that he doesn't have to spend the money as dictated by these provisions, arguably in some technical sense he shouldn't because they where never made law. The president could reasonably argue that not only does he not want to spend this money but he doesn't have the authority to do so. OTOH that's more of a theoretical issue than a real one. Not only have the courts, congress, the people, and the whole political culture accepted such spending, but also the total level of spending was voted in to law, and has to be spend somewhere. Only a certain percent (maybe 99% but not all of it) of it has been specified by law to go to some particular program or activity, the rest has to be spend somewhere, so it doesn't make sense to consider spending it on the areas where congress wanted to spend it as something illegal, it is rather just not legally required.