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To: TimF who wrote (31624)	1/20/2009 10:14:21 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 71588

The two largest budget items by a large margin are $644 billion - Social Security $632 billion - Medicare / Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) .... According to liberal logic they must be increased and savings found elsewhere.

To: TimF who wrote (31624)	1/20/2009 2:02:04 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

A note to you Tim... Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions — who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage. What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them — that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works... From the text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address 1-20-09