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From: todd@SCINEWS.UUCP (Todd Jones)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Balanced Budget Amendment
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Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 19:18:33 EDT
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> > If you are @b(really) serious about lowering the deficit then read any of the
> > books and reports put out by the Grace Commission.  I mean over $400 million in
> > savings in three years makes the stuff they are doing pretty pathetic.
> 
> Make me laugh.   Four hundred million dollars lasts the DoD from about
> 8:00 to lunchtime.  We could cut $10 *B*illion off the budget by just
> shutting down the Pentagon for a week.  Attacks on AMTRAK and EPA and
> education are mind-boggling stupid when you think about the orders of
> magnitude more money thrown away at the War Department.
> 
> 	Bob Lied	ihnp4!ihlts!lied


Hear hear, here!