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Obama's new budget saves $24 billion

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now, where is the GOP budget for 2012?

though....it does appear that some of Obama's proposed Defense cuts for 2012 are in the GOP's proposed 2011 cuts.

...though I don't see the GOP cutting the jet engine that the Pentagon doesn't need or want.
 
I say let them cut the pork from the military. So long as they don't cut NASA or the money for high speed rail I'm happy with it.
 
Travis said:
I say let them cut the pork from the military. So long as they don't cut NASA or the money for high speed rail I'm happy with it.
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Why not cut NASA? What's NASA doing that makes it sacrosanct from even temporary cuts during a time when the interest on our growing debt threatens the very stability of our nation?
 
Thunder said:
most importantly, it cuts billions in military budgets and programs that the Pentagon doesn't even want.
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No, most importantly it continues to run deficits, which adds more and more to our $14T+ debt. That is its most important feature.
 
Piggy said:
Why not cut NASA? What's NASA doing that makes it sacrosanct from even temporary cuts during a time when the interest on our growing debt threatens the very stability of our nation?
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Because NASA is involved in a lot of high end basic research and does neat things that make this nation worth living in.
 
deepatrax said:
The House Appropriations Committee today introduced a Continuing Resolution (H.R. 1) to fund the federal government for the last seven months of the fiscal year while cutting spending by over $100 billion from the President’s fiscal year 2011 request.

http://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=261
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I see the sleight of hand. The OP was about the President's 2012 budget request, not the President’s 2011 request, which I assume was not the same as the actual budget that was finally passed by congress and signed by the president.
 
Puppycow said:
I see the sleight of hand. The OP was about the President's 2012 budget request, not the President’s 2011 request, which I assume was not the same as the actual budget that was finally passed by congress and signed by the president.
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we are still in fiscal year 2011...the GOP wants to cut $100 billion from the current budget...then we can get to 2012.
 
deepatrax said:
we are still in fiscal year 2011...the GOP wants to cut $100 billion from the current budget...then we can get to 2012.
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Not according to your link. Do you understand the difference between "the current budget" and "the President’s fiscal year 2011 request"?
 
Puppycow said:
Not according to your link. Do you understand the difference between "the current budget" and "the President’s fiscal year 2011 request"?
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true, the actual cut total would be around total $61 billion since Obama's 2011 request was never enacted.

sly ones, those Republicans!

I didn't catch that, thanks.
 
MG1962 said:
Yeah rocket trains........thats what we need
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You ain't seen nothin yet. We're gonna build a gargantuan mother ship in earth orbit. Then we're friggin leaving. We might send a mother or two back in a few millenia to settle some scores.
 
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