The bus is going off a cliff and there's no one to stop it. --- On Tue, 4/19/11, Nicholas Geti <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Nicholas Geti <[email protected]> > Subject: [OT] Americans duped on budget cuts > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 8:56 AM > The American People Were Duped! > > What was hailed as the biggest spending cut in history by > Speaker John Boehner and the rest of the House Republican > leadership was little more than an exercise in smoke and > mirrors. > > According to The Washington Post: "A federal budget > compromise that was hailed as historic for proposing to cut > about $38 billion would reduce federal spending by only $352 > million this fiscal year, less than 1 percent of the bill's > advertised amount, according to the Congressional Budget > Office." > > After promising to cut 100 BILLION dollars from the bloated > federal budget and defund ObamaCare this year, House > Republicans revised that figure down to 61 BILLION. Then, in > an eleventh-hour "compromise" with Barack Obama and Harry > Reid, Boehner and Company told us that they succeeded in > getting 38.5 BILLION dollars in cuts. But when it was all > said and done, according to the Congressional Budget Office > (CBO), the "cuts" for this fiscal year were a paltry 352 > MILLION dollars. > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/9F7ABC9972694B8AACBB7C1972202AA9@dual > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are > the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or > medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for > those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
