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Santorum wants to cut $5 trillion over 5 years or did the news screw this up in their reporting?

Posted by Republic of Mogul (aka H-Mogul) Feb 9 '12, 18:39

That's a trillion a year or basically the current yearly deficit.

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obviously by cutting all federal spending, who needs roads and bridges, the wealthy have helicopters, don't you? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 9, 18:49 15
- Yeah, want to see a waste of billions of tax dollars. Look at Seattle's Big Dig 2 -- nm - Bacon Feb 9, 18:50 6
  - Is that a federal project? -- nm - ty97 Feb 9, 19:17 1
    - It has Fed money in it -- nm - Bacon Feb 9, 19:23
  - If they do it right, take care of a couple major problems (sea wall and traffic) they also open up that whole area shadowed by the viaduct, that will - zeitgeist Feb 9, 19:00 3
    - "look at san fran when they took down the same kind of freeway that shrouded the waterfront" I was there, the earthquake took that down -- nm - Bacon Feb 9, 19:02 2
      - I know that, (was there too) the seattle one will fall on its own, or the next quake, the point is, when the San Fran viaduct came down, the sun came - zeitgeist Feb 9, 19:08 1
        
        Boondoggle!!! -- nm - Bacon Feb 9, 19:14
- You realize Santorum isn't wealthy, right? -- nm - spamlet Feb 9, 18:50 7
  - Maybe not by Romney -- nm - Reagen Feb 9, 18:51 6
    - 's standards, but he's somewhere between 1/2 a mil and 2M -- (link) - Reagen Feb 9, 18:51 5
      - That's hardly "I own a helicopter" money. - spamlet Feb 9, 18:53 4
        
        I've always seen Santorium as a 'bottom figure' kind of guy. -- nm - Qale Feb 9, 19:06 2
        
        So has Dan Savage -- nm - Beryllium Feb 9, 19:22 1
        
        Dat's da joke. -- nm - Ranier Wolfcastle Feb 9, 19:23
        
        guys like that get speaking $, consultation $, sit on corp boards, and borrow their helicopters when they need it -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 9, 19:02
He heard that after the first billion, it gets easier and easier -- nm - Beryllium Feb 9, 18:45 1
- The first cut is the deepest. -- nm - Sheryl Crow Feb 9, 18:49
Which is how he came up with the number. - spamlet Feb 9, 18:44
true, apparently. -- (link) - Reagen Feb 9, 18:43 1
- Thanks. And it all comes out of everything but defense. Good luck with that, congress couldn't cut $1.2 T over 10 years. -- nm - Republic of Mogul Feb 9, 19:00

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