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To: Christian_Capitalist
Rand Paul wants to eliminate the Federal Departments of Education, Energy and Commerce.

In other words he's not serious. His plan, even if it was approved, would reduce the deficit by about 7%. Unless he talks about tackling entitlements then he's no different from any other politician who says they'll slash the size of government in the hopes that the voters are dumb enough to believe them.

29 posted on 04/21/2010 4:00:42 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
In other words he's not serious. His plan, even if it was approved, would reduce the deficit by about 7%. Unless he talks about tackling entitlements then he's no different from any other politician who says they'll slash the size of government in the hopes that the voters are dumb enough to believe them.

Are you daft?

A reduction of $112 Billion, or roughly 4% cut, in total Federal outlays, would represent the largest absolute or percentage cut in the Federal Budget in over 50 years.

And that's just the savings from the Departments he would eliminate; we haven't even discussed the savings from Departments which he would vote to simply reduce.

But even just looking at the proposed Department eliminations, in saying "In other words he's not serious", you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Fact is, even a 4% cut in the Federal Budget would be BY FAR the largest Fiscal Conservative victory against Federal Spending in the last half-century.

Read a history book, for once in your life. Sheesh.

30 posted on 04/21/2010 5:08:00 AM PDT by Christian_Capitalist (Taxation over 10% is Tyranny -- 1 Samuel 8:17)
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