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ThomWV  (1000+ posts)        Fri Apr-08-11 06:42 PM
Original message
Democrats have agreed to 70% of the cuts Republicans demanded?
 So, what was cut? What programs are now dead in the water. What services will not be available monday even if the rest of the Government is still working? What have we already agreed to give up? Its billions of dollars worth of something, its not coming from thin air? So what have we already lost?

Justitia  (1000+ posts)      Fri Apr-08-11 06:42 PM
Response to Original message
1. nope - 78%

AleksS (125 posts)      Fri Apr-08-11 06:44 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. WTF? Really?
 So, let me get this straught, repubs control 1/2 of 1 branch of gov't and yet they're the ones getting the lion's share of their demands?

Seriously?

Enthusiast  (1000+ posts)        Fri Apr-08-11 06:47 PM
Response to Reply #2
8. Kind of makes you wonder
 WTF is the use of electing Democrats.

Took the words right out of my fingertips.

davidthegnome (944 posts)      Fri Apr-08-11 06:45 PM
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4. A whole hell of a lot
 is my guess. I'm assuming that Republicans are doing as they normally do - eliminating funding for food stamps, medicare, welfare, medicaid, state and Federal assistance programs for those in need. I can't believe our dems went even that far... come on people... what the ****? We can't make the corporations pay just a little bit? We can't really make them share the sacrifice? Really?

Shared sacrifice. In other words, you and I lose our shirts so some asshole who stashes millions or billions in offshore accounts can save money... because it will trickle down, they will use it to hire us poor shmucks. Thank Gawd for the trickles... wait, that's my roof leaking. 

$3.7TN budget

$1.4TN deficit

$61BN cuts

But all hell is breaking loose?

Just how many people did Obama drive into poverty?

MzNov (1000+ posts)        Fri Apr-08-11 06:46 PM
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5. If Planned Parenthood is the "last" item holding up this budget
 

we can be sure the Dems gave them billions of dollars' worth of cuts as they wanted. It will eventually come out what was butchered, I don't have any links so far. The "Riders" will tell all. So much for transparency, eh?

I'm thinking PBS goes, EPA got sliced, Medicare? Medicaid? help for poor children, that stuff was all on the Pukes' agenda. The Dems must have caved on most of that stuff.

WVRICK13 (879 posts)      Fri Apr-08-11 06:46 PM
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6. Democrats Lack Nerve
 LIke it or not, Democrats are a bunch of wimps with no spin.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x846743

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To be bluntly honest, the only thing that concerns the mountain man primitive, the "ThomWV" primitive, is his sacred social security check and medicare.  Ever since he started collecting social security retirement two years ago, the mountain man primitive's not cared about anything but those checks and the free medical care.

Not an iota of concern about national security and defense, education, the infrastructure, administration of justice, delivering the mail, conducting foreign affairs, helping farmers, feeding the hungry, &c., &c., &c.--those all can go to Hell, so long as the mountain man primitive gets his social security check.