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Originally posted by sgtclub
You (and I mean all of you) that don't think we couldn't easily cut 4% of a $10 trillion budget are out of your minds.
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When pushed on the details, it's best to resort to vague generalities. Nevertheless, the job gets harder if the budget
is less than a quarter of that size, because now you're talking chopping more like a fifth of the total outlays ($420 billion/$2319 billion).
And the only reason we're having this argument at all is because you were pretending that there are inefficiencies and pork that you can cut to close the $420 billion Bush deficit. Give. It. Up.*
*Unlike AG I don't care that (e.g.) pork isn't going to be cut. I just think it's silly for you to pretend that the federal budget is full of unspecified waste that can be cut to offset Bush's spending.
