By Washington DC standards the just concluded budget agreement
for funding the federal government through September, is a big win for
Republicans. Emily
Miller in Human Events
describes, "The final agreement will be for $38.5 billion in cuts from current
spending over the remaining six months of the current fiscal year, which ends on
Sept. 30. The spending cuts, although historic in size, account for only 2.5% of
this year's projected budget deficit of $1.6 trillion." Here lies the obscenity
of the central government; namely, that a mere drop in the bucket reduction in a
historic deficit is lauded as the great achievement of compromised negotiations.
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