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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