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Offline rich_t

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Down Sizing the Government
« on: October 11, 2010, 05:58:54 AM »
Some interesting ideas in here:

http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/
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Re: Down Sizing the Government
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2010, 11:33:32 AM »
A couple of things that we could afford to quit doing is quit paying farmers to NOT grow crops and quit paying people to allow their land to return to nature. (The CRP program) Then there's a myriad of social programs that could and should be dumped.
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