GOP Pushes for $61 Billion in Budget Cuts

The two parties are still far apart on a permanent solution to the budget standoff

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There are other bipartisan cuts to be made—a recent government report identified billions in duplicative federal spending—but those probably won't be enough to get the parties on the same page. In order to fund the government for the next seven months, both parties will likely have to make painful concessions. It will be clear within two weeks whether or not they'll be able to do it.

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Tags:: Richard Durbin,; Congress,; deficit and national debt,; national security terrorism and the military,; Mitch McConnell,; Nancy Pelosi,; Harry Reid,; Democratic Party,; White House,; Republican Party

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Absolutely great post, Muser. It's no wonder Right-wingers will never debate. Facing the kinds of preparedness you bring would be pretty threatening to ideologues and their half-baked, self-serving agendas.
Keep posting, NM friend.

Ron W. Smith of UT 1:43PM March 12, 2011

all great societies fall from within.. Take Rome, the British empire , etc. While we worry about terrorists the rich and powerful( including the government) are killing our republic. The inherent GREED and total disparaging of anyone lower than you on the economic ladder is what will send us the way of the former great societies.
Every seven years the Israelis had to return land to former owners and feed the poor from their own land, and every seventy do so again. When the wealthy in this country stop using us for their personal ATM and stop creating a Class system , America might have a chance...

Rick of IL 4:02PM March 10, 2011

“A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chance of salvation to unfortunate individuals.”

Jeugenen of MA 11:22AM March 10, 2011

GOP Pushes for $61 Billion in Budget Cuts

The two parties are still far apart on a permanent solution to the budget standoff

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