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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Getting The Bromides Right: Republicans Champion Cuts But Shun The Scalpel


Alan: Conservatives -- be they political or religious -- want correctly phrased credos. 
Nothing more.
If the "words" are right, there is no need to do anything but applaud "the invisible hand."

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"In 2013, the federal government spent $986 billion on discretionary programs, all told. That's scheduled to shrink to $967 billion in 2014 under current law. Virtually all of the additional cuts next year will come out of the military and other defense programs...In the abstract, many conservatives favor those lower spending levels. But Republicans were having trouble putting those cuts into practice when it came time to slice up specific programs." Brad Plumer in The Washington Post

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The Invisible Hand's impact on 90% of the population.



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