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Russia Cuts Budget to Try to Spur Growth
NY Times ^ | Sept 1, 2013 | ANDREW E. KRAMER

Posted on 09/21/2013 7:41:09 PM PDT by Innovative

The Russian government on Thursday approved across-the-board budget cuts over the next two years in the clearest sign yet that officials do not expect its economy, the world’s eighth-largest, to revive soon, and that the Kremlin is ready to try a new policy to spur growth.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: budget; spending
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To: citizen

The last year that the national debt never increased was during the Truman administration I believe.


21 posted on 09/21/2013 10:15:19 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If global warming exists I hope it is strong enough to reverse the Big Government snowball)
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To: DesertRhino

I once met a girl at a bar and she kept telling me I looked familiar. I ended up going to her apartment and she had cut out pictures off of milk cartons and pasted them all over the walls. Then I figured out why she thought I looked familiar. One of the pictures looked like me when I was a child. I called my parents and told them that I now knew why they didn’t have any pictures of me when I was younger than six.

Didn’t really happen.


22 posted on 09/21/2013 11:10:36 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: hummingbird

“Putin sticking it to B. O. again?”

Yep. Obama is now Vlad’s bitch. The whole world knows it even though the Dems and US Media are on a propaganda push claiming Obama’s tough stand on Syria has Russia, Syria and Iran quaking in their boots.


23 posted on 09/22/2013 7:12:44 AM PDT by AlphaOneAlpha
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