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Your fer cry-eye quote of the day:

August 18, 2011

Michael Tanner:

Domestic discretionary spending makes up less than 20 percent of the federal budget. If you eliminated it all — the Department of Education, the Department of Commerce, the FDA, the FBI — we would still be running a deficit.

How the hell did this happen?

One Comment
  1. Tregonsee permalink
    August 18, 2011 8:04 am

    Baseline Budgeting. It is a formula for what mathematicians call exponential growth.

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