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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (41610)	3/2/2010 2:14:41 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

As I have said.... PAYGO budget rules, deficit commissions and such are BUT THE MINIMUM STARTING STEPS that are required to ever have hope of getting this problem of CHRONIC FEDERAL DEFICIT The are actions to an extent, but they are neither necessary nor sufficient to deal with the problem, and often they get proposed (or even sometimes implemented) more as symbolic gestures than has real change (and thus are more expressions of concern, or effectively a rhetorical device, than a useful action). Real ACTIONS to me, is really cutting spending (or at least seriously restraining its growth), reforming entitlements, reducing deficits (quite a big reduction from today's stratospheric levels, at least some reductions from the levels like the previous smaller ones). I don't consider "proposed to form a committee" as "an action" in any meaningful way in this context. Technically it is, but so is breathing. Neither is an example of cutting the deficit.