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amandabeech

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20. I believe that he was the one who took the Iraq war off budget.

Reply to Old and In the Way (Reply #9)

Wed Jan 25, 2012, 12:09 AM

Jan 2012

That made the budget balance, you see!

He also obviously wants to make SS and Medicare into an entitlement program that will be easy to chop to death.

That Tweety gets excited about "bringing SS and Medicare" under control shows that Tweety really thinks like the 1%. Tip would be very, very disappointed in his protege.

I agree that this guy isn't as bad as Newt, but he ain't great.

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