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BREAKING NEWS: Obama to call for 5-year freeze on non-security spending, White House says
MSNBC ^ | January 25, 2011 | MSNBC

Posted on 01/25/2011 9:40:57 AM PST by Hawk720

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To: Hawk720

It’s a CON! Just like the pay freezes in federal employees. The pay rates were frozen, but EVERYONE got merit/step increases into the next higher pay grade, so although they technically did not get “raises” their pay increased because they were re-classified into a higher grade where the “frozen pay rate” was above the “frozen pay grade” they were just promoted out of.

No matter how thin you slice it, it’s still baloney!


41 posted on 01/25/2011 10:09:37 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Conservatives want a CHOICE not an echo - No more RINOs!)
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To: Hawk720

This from the professional liar himself.


42 posted on 01/25/2011 10:12:47 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Hawk720

“Freeze” at the highest levels in history


43 posted on 01/25/2011 10:23:13 AM PST by montag813 (http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona)
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To: Hawk720

This @ssclown takes us for idiots.

If for two years I or my spouse run up our credit card debt by spending $1,000 a month more than we bring in, we don’t “freeze” our spending at a level that’s already been proven to be a disaster, we cut back until we actually start chewing into the accumulated debt. Or we figure out how to make a lot more money.

Obama is incapable of pursuing either approach.


44 posted on 01/25/2011 10:29:42 AM PST by Stosh
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To: Hawk720
Sorry, but spending must be cut back to levels from earlier this decade, not frozen at the ridiculously high levels currently in place. The GOP's response must include a statement like this, and the GOP's mantra should be to cut, not freeze.
45 posted on 01/25/2011 10:31:00 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (Democrat Motto - "A lie will travel halfway around the world before the truth can put its pants on.")
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To: Stosh
This @ssclown takes us for idiots.

51% of the country ARE idiots... the Dem voters to be specific.

46 posted on 01/25/2011 10:35:02 AM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Hawk720

Usually these “freezes” mean nothing beyond inflationary increases. So the budget will contiue to grow along with the deficits.


47 posted on 01/25/2011 10:42:25 AM PST by kabar
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To: Major Matt Mason
Since the entitlement programs and debt servicing costs make up half of the budget and consume all of the tax revenue, this freeze on non-security funding is meaningless. Here is a video illustrating our problem.

Budget cuts

48 posted on 01/25/2011 10:45:24 AM PST by kabar
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To: ltc8k6

Food security
Healthcare security
House security
Heating and cooling security
etc.


49 posted on 01/25/2011 10:50:17 AM PST by sheana
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To: Hawk720

Other Breaking News: Kevin Martin says, “Yeah Right!”


50 posted on 01/25/2011 11:10:53 AM PST by Trueblackman (The Tea Party is right big government doesn't work and 6 people are dead.)
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To: Hawk720

FREEZE HELL!! REDUCE....REDUCE....REDUCE!!!


51 posted on 01/25/2011 11:30:55 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ltc8k6

My hackles rise at the idea of what Bummer would call “security.” More and more nanny state? Also spending “would not increase” compared to what, the stimu-porkathons of 2009-2010?


52 posted on 01/25/2011 11:31:50 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: ClearCase_guy

“We need to get serious about this. For too long both parties blah blah blag ... my predecessor... highest ever... “


53 posted on 01/25/2011 12:10:16 PM PST by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: wise_caucasian

Maybe he meant we are going to freeze our butts off in all this global warming...


54 posted on 01/25/2011 12:11:24 PM PST by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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