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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I But look on the bright side: It's a fairly long document, and time spent reading is time in which they won't be passing any actual legislation.
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It really ain't that
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There is no hope of either party enacting serious custs to Medicare, SS or Defense, or even stanching substantial pork projects.
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I guess we can debate what's serious, but I'd bet on some tweaks to SS, although it isn't really much of a problem.
As for health care, the GOP House rules apparently exempt the cost savings of the health care reform from paygo (to go along with there desire to cut taxes without paying for them). On the one hand, it's nice to have them admit that they believe there will be cost savings. On the other it's disappointing that they don't want the savings
