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$40 Billion Over 5 Years

Posted by Pejman Yousefzadeh on Thu Feb 02, 2006 at 11:15:00 AM EST

And it's not even a "cut." Don't get me wrong; I prefer this kind of news to the news of fiscal profligacy that we have been used to. But the fact that a halt in increases is viewed as a cut and that the underlying story is written in a "Meteor About To Strike: Women And Children To Be Hit The Hardest" kind of way shows just far we have to go before public opinion finally learns to countenance fiscal responsibility of any kind.

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