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To: RetiredNow who wrote (528592)	11/13/2009 10:12:16 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1575424

Obama smokes cigarettes,how smart can he be ?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (528592)	11/13/2009 12:14:06 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575424

Mindmeld, you're believing the myths that the Democrats are telling you. Nothing in PelosiCare is going to reduce costs. Instead, they just shift them around and promise more entitlements for their constituents. That's a sure-fire way to increase costs. The rest of your post is just repeating the same partisan bullcrap that you thought you voted out when you voted for "Change you can believe in." Nothing has changed. Obstructionism has always been the tool of the minority party. In this case it's understandable, given how much the Democrats want to grow government. If anyone is going for a power grab, it's Obama. Tenchusatsu

To: RetiredNow who wrote (528592)	11/13/2009 3:35:45 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575424

Those are non-discretionary, because they were codified by Congressional Laws Their non-discretionary as a term of art that's normally used when analyzing the budget, they are discretionary by the ordinary English meaning of the word because a single act of congress (combined with a presidential signing, or two acts if you have to override a veto), can eliminate the spending. and 2 tax cuts Bush passed Tax cuts aren't either "mandatory" or discretionary spending. They don't fit in to that scheme under any category. The discretionary items are the minority of our deficit. The deficit doesn't come with specific labels for each dollar. You can analyze it or chop it up in all sorts of different ways. Still your statement is a very reasonable one. The "mandatory" spending is the majority of the spending, so its reasonable to consider it the majority of the deficit (leaving "discretionary" items accounting for only a minority)