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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics
Subject: Re: Re starving people and Reagan
Message-ID: <396@pyuxa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Nov-83 15:56:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 30 15:56:49 1983
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The OBM only sorts out numbers, it doesn't make up the budget.
The President only proposes what he thinks might be a good budget,
Congress doesn't have to accept it {and rarely does}.  The
Congress can override the veto, and does on occasion.  The
budgets from Congress, at least over the past twenty years, have
almost always exceeded the amount requested by the President.
Public pressure is nearly always in favor of a larger budget
(special interest groups never seem to ask for less).  Check
the differences between what the original budgets proposed and
what finally was signed.  It can boggle the mind.
Fiscal responsibility has not been one of Congresses strong
points over the past 40 years.