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Tea partiers should be boiling at $1.1 trillion bill
The Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | 12/15/2010 | Kyle Wingfield

Posted on 12/16/2010 4:36:56 PM PST by Sprite518

The immediate threat is a $1.1 trillion spending bill, with some 6,500 earmarks in its nearly 2,000 pages, which Senate Democrats suddenly unveiled Tuesday and want to pass ASAP. The bill would essentially freeze the bloated federal budget through the end of this fiscal year.

In every respect, this is the kind of action voters rejected at the ballot box last month. It is a budget-busting, debt-inducing, written-in-the-dark and rammed-through-before-daylight bill.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bill; taxes; tea; trillion
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To: RobRoy

Actually it looks like they’ve taken both of those :obsos’s choices. If that’s possible.


21 posted on 12/17/2010 5:31:09 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

Looks like they won! Thank God!


22 posted on 12/17/2010 6:53:33 AM PST by Sprite518
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