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Old 03-17-2013, 12:30 PM   #225
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Nice to pick and choose.

2012 budget cut 19,000 public sector jobs and around $4 billion in spending IIRC.
Wait, I rely on numbers from 2006 to 2012, you rely on a single year (2013), and I'm the one picking and choosing?




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And I'm not calling the spending increases GOOD. The point is that if governments want to cut spending, they can....and nobody is going to die a horrible death.
Actually, you don't know that. Indeed, it is very likely that, for example, prison overcrowding caused by the omnibus crime bill will at least contribute to the deaths of guards and/or prisoners.
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