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Obama to seek [whopping] $17B in budget savings

May 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a line-by-line scrub of the federal budget, President Barack Obama has signed off on a roster of 121 budget cuts totaling $17 billion — or about one-half of 1 percent of the $3.4 trillion budget Congress has approved for next year. (emphasis mine)

Obama, I refuse to believe that you even tried.

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  • 1 Benjamin // May 6, 2009 at 9:42 pm

    Sad… :( How much did we spend on the bailouts? About 3 trillion so far? And we “try” to cut that little!? ugh…

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